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  • Tendências no excesso de peso e obesidade infantil em crianças do CASM: um estudo de 5 anos (resultados referentes ao 2º ano de estudo)
    Publication . Andrade, José Rui Carvalho Casimiro de; Rocha, Júlio César
    Introduction: Childhood overweight and obesity are a pandemic nowadays. Food patterns, physical activity and genetics are often associated with this problem in children. The Centro de Apoio Social de Mozelos is a private solidarity institution that has implemented a healthy food pattern supervised by a nutritionist. In addition, physical activity is free available to all children. Objetives: This study aimed to evaluate overweight and obesity prevalence in a pediatric population (2 to 12 years old). Methodology: This work corresponds to the second year (2017) of a longitudinal study that will be carried out over 5 years. Anthropometric measurements were performed in 162 children aged 3 to 10 years attending the Centro de Apoio Social de Mozelos. Also, 158 parents were also studied. Overweight and obesity were defined using the World Health Organization criteria. Results: The global prevalence of overweight and obesity in children was 24,7%. In children under 5 years of age the prevalence was 6% while in those who were more than 5 years old it was 37.9%. Half the parents were overweight or obese. Conclusions: Children prevalence of overweight and obesity were lower in Centro de Apoio Social de Mozelos comparing with similar studies. Overweight and obesity in parents were also lower than the general Portuguese population (50% vs. 67,7%). The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children more than doubled when neither or both parents are overweight or obese, respectively (15,4% vs. 33,3%). The incidence of overweight and obesity that will be determined in the next three years will be important to understand the impact of the nutritionist in this type of institutions.
    2017Bachelor thesis Open access Show more