Open AccessInfluência das condições socioeconômicas nas alterações nutricionais e na taxa de metabolismo de repouso em crianças escolares moradoras em favelas no município de São Paulo
Author(s) -
Luciane Peter Grillo,
Lídia Raquel de Carvalho,
Antonio Carlos da Silva,
Ieda Therezinha do Nascimento Verreschi,
Ana Lydia Sawaya
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
revista da associação médica brasileira
Language(s) - Portuguese
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1806-9282
pISSN - 0104-4230
DOI - 10.1590/s0104-42302000000100002
Subject(s) - functional illiteracy , medicine , body weight , zoology , socioeconomic status , basal metabolic rate , demography , population , biology , environmental health , sociology , political science , law
A cross-sectional study was carried out to characterize the alterations in the resting metabolic rate (RMR), and socioeconomic conditions of 15 stunted (DP= height/age < 95% and 110% (3) weight/height >90%) and 15 nonstunted (EU= height/age > 95% and 110% (3) weight/height >90%) school girls living in shantytowns of São Paulo.