1. Perfil antropométrico e de adiposidade de escolares de 9 a 14 anos do município de Aracaju, Sergipe, Brasil.
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Santos Do Nascimento, Marcus Vinicius, De Oliveira Barros, Layanne, dos Santos Lemos, Carla Fabiane, and Moura Soares, Nara Michelle
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ADIPOSE tissues , *ANTHROPOMETRY , *HUMAN body composition , *CHILDREN'S health , *SKINFOLD thickness , *ADOLESCENT health , *BODY mass index , *CROSS-sectional method , *WAIST-hip ratio , *WAIST circumference , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The objective this study was to verify the anthropometric and body fat of students nine 14 years, of both sexes, the Aracaju city, Sergipe, Brazil. The study was a cross-sectional study was sample of 758 individuals (52.6% female) and age 9-14 years enrolled in public school network. Were collected anthropometric information, as mass and height, triceps and subscapular skinfold and waist and hip circumference, to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI), Body Fat percentage (BF%) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR). Descriptive statistics was calculated for media and standard deviation and percentiles 3%, 50% and 97%, for males and females. There was high percentage of subjects with BMI (23.7%) and %BF (26.3%) up to recommended for literature. In Addition, as girls showed results in more to relationship boys in the variables: mass (44,0kg vs 42,7kg) and stature (vs. 1,51cm 1,50cm), waist (66,6cm x 66,5cm) and hip circumference (84,3cm x 80,4cm), triceps (15,4cm x 12,2cm) and subscapular skinfold (12.5 cm x 9.5 cm), BMI (18.9 kg/m2 vs 18.4 kg/m2) and %BF (22.6 vs. 18.1). However, only in WHR was observed superior results for males (0.79 vs 0.82) in the schools. There has been importance of strategies creation to prevent weight gain in this population, how to avoid instruments paragraph harm to health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016