Resumo Objetivo Testar a efetividade de uma tecnologia educativa sobre excesso ponderal no estágio prontidão para mudança comportamento do adulto com hipertensão arterial sistêmica e ponderal. Métodos Estudo quase-experimental, dois grupos, comparação intervenção, cada um 36 participantes, cujo foi avaliado antes (momento zero) depois um) da intervenção (implementação ou não cartilha), após mês...

Background: Methylmercury is one of the most toxic forms of mercury, which severely afflicts the developing fetus. Methylmercury exposure occurs not only through fish consumption but also through rice consumption. However, rice does not contain the same beneficial micronutrients that fish/shellfish has. Therefore, prenatal methylmercury exposure through maternal rice consumption may potentially...

Intrauterine growth and development is one of the most vulnerable process in the human life cycle and it’s aberrations can result in profound and lasting influence in later life. In the context of developing countries, intrauterine growth has been invariably assessed by birth weight. Although it may be reasonable to infer that fetuses who have experienced growth restriction in utero will be lig...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—This was a population-based cohort study of 3,705 infants of type 1 diabetic mothers (1,876 boys), with a gestational age of 28–43 weeks, born in Sweden between 1998 and 2007. BW and BL were retrieved from the Medical Birth Registry and expressed as SD scores (SDS). Ponderal index (PI) was calculated as BW in g/length in cm. A BW.90th and a PI,90th percentile was def...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the association between the anthropometric nutritional state of the pregnant women during his third trimester of pregnancy with the anthropometric state nutritional of the product of the gestation, who carried out their prenatal control in the University Hospital of Caracas and the Hospital of Caracas Clinics. The evaluated variables were: preg...

BACKGROUND Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are developmental toxicants, but the impact of both maternal and paternal exposures on offspring birth size is largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE We examined associations between maternal and paternal serum concentrations of 63 POPs, comprising five major classes of pollutants, with birth size measures. METHODS Parental serum concentrations of 9 or...

The intraocular and systemic blood pressure, height, weight, and haemoglobin were measured in 573 subjects over 60 years old from a general practice population. Intraocular pressure was positively and independently related to systemic blood pressure (P less than 0.0001) and obesity (P less than 0.01) as assessed by the ponderal index. Systolic pressure rather than diastolic or mean pressure was...

Methods Seventy-one singleton infants born at term were classified by birth weight as AGA (10th-90th percentile; n=42) and as LGA (>90th percentile; n=29). Post-natal follow-up until age 1 year was performed with clinical assessments at 3, 6, and 12 months. Assessments included measurement of infants’ weight, length, ponderal index, BMI, as well as head, chest, and abdominal circumference. A su...