Resumen

CARDOSO, Jane Laner et al. Attained growth and nutritional status of schoolchildren. ALAN [online]. 2017, vol.67, n.2, pp.116-121. ISSN 0004-0622.

The increasing prevalence of obesity is occurring in all ages, including in developing countries. The objective was to evaluate the achieved growth and nutriti nal status of two groups of schoolchildren from public schools: one at the beginning of school age and another in the transition to adolescence. The analysis of sample with 1082 children, divided into two groups according to the age, a group of 6 and 7 years (G1) and the other with 9 and 10 years (G2), from the public elementary schools of Floriano polis. For nutritional status classification of schoolchildren used the parameter z score of BMI (zBMI,) for children with five years and older (WHO 2007). Measures of central ten dency, dispersion and proportions based data analysis. The results were: the average age of G1 and G2 was respectively of 6.5 years (SD= 0.31), and 9.6 years (SD= 0.26); average of attainted growth (z score of height to age - H/A) of the sample (H/A: 0.25, SD= 1.09) was above the benchmark; the prevalence of overweight (overweight, obesity and severe obesity together) was 42.5%. The z score of BMI di tribution showed a deviation to the right, with an average of 0.78 and positive z score a SD = 1.32 (95% CI 0.69 to 0.85), without statistical difference between G1 and G2. In conclusion, the schoolchildren showed in 2012 appropriate height growth concomitantly to the absence of malnutrition and a very high prevalence of excess weight, which can re present a late stage of Nutritional Transition.

Palabras clave : Nutritional status; growth; children; students; obesity; nutritional transition.