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- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Biometria ocular, erro refrativo e sua relação com a estatura, idade, sexo e escolaridade em adultos brasileiros(Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia, 2007-06-01) Pereira, Graziela Campanelli [UNIFESP]; Allemann, Norma [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)PURPOSE: To assess ocular biometric parameters and refractive error in Brazilian adults and their relationship with height, age, gender and years of formal education. METHODS: Cross-sectional study that assessed 173 subjects by keratometry, echobiometry, refraction and measurement of body height. The statistical analysis was performed using Pearson's coefficient and a regression model was constructed. RESULTS: The correlations found were: each 10 cm - increase in height was related to a 0.32 mm longer axial length, 0.07 mm deeper anterior chamber, 0.26 mm deeper vitreous chamber and 0.50 D flatter keratometry. Each 10-year increase in age, related to a 0.15 mm smaller axial length, 0.25 mm thicker lens, 0.21 mm shallower vitreous chamber and 0.23 D more positive spherical equivalent. Each 10-year increase in education related to a 0.74 D more negative spherical equivalent. Gender did not influence the analyzed biometric parameters. Equations referring to biometric parameters and spherical equivalent were formulated. CONCLUSIONS: Positive correlations were found between: axial length and height; anterior chamber and vitreous cavity depth with height; lens thickness with age; keratometry with height; and spherical equivalent with age. Negative correlations were found between: anterior chamber and vitreous cavity depth with age; spherical equivalent and years of formal education.
- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Follow-up of children and adolescents with short stature: the importance of the growth rate(Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM, 2005-05-01) Strufaldi, Maria Wany Louzada [UNIFESP]; Silva, Edina Mariko Koga da [UNIFESP]; Puccini, Rosana Fiorini [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Short stature is defined as a height of more than two standard deviations below the average for a given age and sex in a reference population. The objective was to describe follow-up conducted among short-stature children and adolescents. DESIGN AND SETTING: Descriptive study, at the Growth outpatient clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). METHODS: The study included 152 patients aged 2 to 15 years who had height for age of less than P5, on the National Center for Health Statistics curve. The children underwent nutritional evaluation, and several variables relating to height and growth rate were calculated to establish etiological diagnosis. Bone age was evaluated by X-ray. RESULTS: The majority (63.2%) were male. In 77.8%, the stature observed was within the family pattern. Among the 99 patients followed up for more than 6 months, 17.2% presented inadequate growth rates. The preponderant etiological diagnosis for short stature was familial/constitutional in 58.6% of the cases; 27 patients (34.2%) with adequate growth rate presented bone age alterations. Even with inadequate growth rates, 75% of such patients had a normal result from growth hormone stimulation testing. Close to 90% of patients with a diagnosis of short stature of familial/constitutional origin and intrauterine growth retardation presented adequate growth rate. The genetic etiology was significantly characteristic of patients with inadequate growth rate. CONCLUSION: Growth rate assessment must form part of the investigation and follow-up of short-stature cases. However, its utilization and validity should form part of an overall view of each patient.
- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Influência do déficit de estatura nos desvios nutricionais em adolescentes e pré-adolescentes(Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, 2009-04-01) Santos, Carla Danusa da Luz [UNIFESP]; Clemente, Ana Paula Grotti [UNIFESP]; Martins, Paula Andrea [UNIFESP]; Sawaya, Ana Lydia [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of stunting on nutrition disorders in low-income preadolescents and adolescents. METHODS: Body mass index was calculated from the weight and height of 4 to 8th grade students from public schools. The tables from the National Center for Health Statistics of 2000 for children and adolescents were used as reference guides. Individuals were considered overweight when Body Mass Index-for-age >P85 and underweight when Body Mass Index-for-age
- ItemAcesso aberto (Open Access)Stunting: its relation to overweight, global or localized adiposity and risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases(Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira, 2007-12-01) Vieira, Valéria Cristina Ribeiro; Fransceschini, Sylvia do Carmo Castro; Fisberg, Mauro [UNIFESP]; Priore, Silvia Eloiza [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de Alfenas Departamento de Nutrição; Universidade Federal de Viçosa Departamento de Nutrição e Saúde; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)This article discloses and discusses recent findings that have associated stunting - which still represents the most prevalent deviation from normal body measurements among children living in developing countries - with overweight and higher adiposity, mainly in the central region of the body, and their clinical and physio-pathological consequences. Although there is need for further studies to clarify these associations, there is a tendency for the weight/height index and body fat topography to behave differently in short and normal stature individuals, mainly in females. This review, therefore, alerts health professionals this characteristic, given that this anthropometric profile may be linked to the widespread occurrence of chronic non-communicable diseases and/or to risk factors for these conditions and that stunting is still a reality in developing countries.