Open AccessAnalysis of the nutritional status of adolescents in Pará, Brazil, from 2010 to 2019
Author(s) -
Ana Gabriela de Sousa Costa,
Randerson José de Araujo Sousa,
Lígia Amaral Filgueiras
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
archivos de medicina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2339-3874
pISSN - 1657-320X
DOI - 10.30554/archmed.21.2.4134.2021
Subject(s) - overweight , obesity , microsoft excel , medicine , demography , scielo , population , body mass index , open access publishing , ms excel , age groups , pediatrics , gerontology , environmental health , medline , biology , library science , biochemistry , software engineering , sociology , computer science , engineering , operating system
Objective: to analyze the nutritional status of adolescents in the status state of Pará, Brazil, in order to observe the trends in the Height x Age and BMI x Age indexes. Material and Methods: it was a quantitative, retrospective and cross-sectional study from 2010 to 2019. The female and male sex were evaluated in each nutritional status index “Height x Age” and “BMI x Age”. The collected data were organized in Microsoft Excel 2010 software and statistics was performed in the Action Stat 3.7 program. A theoretical framework was adopted with complete scientific articles published in the BVS, SciELO, MEDLINE, LILACS databases and institutional documents. The ethics committee's assessment was not necessary. Results: in “Height x Age”, a total of 132,114 adolescents were registered and the female gender prevailed (65.8%), normality in the distribution of data was observed and a difference was noted in the category “Suitable for age”, which registered more notifications (80.9%). In the "BMI x Age", 132,204 were reported, a normal distribution was found, but there was a statistical difference between the sexes in the categories: "overweight", "obesity", "severe obesity" and "eutrophy", which represented the largest percentage (73.4%). Conclusion: the population is mostly female, and the distribution of records is heterogeneous. Both sexes were shown to be of adequate height for their age and eutrophic. However, it was noticed that the nutritional scenario is changing, which may lead, in the future, to public health problems, such as the increase in the number of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases.