Nutritional status and dietary intake of pregnant women.

Objective: To evaluate weight gain during pregnancy according to the pregestational state in women who underwent prenatal care in Primary Health Care.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with the participation of 255 pregnant women. Socioeconomic and demographic variables were collected using a structured questionnaire.

CD4+ T Lymphocytes Subsets in Early Life: Does Exclusive Breastfeeding Promote Allergy?

Breastfeeding provides ideal nutrition and passive immunization for growing infants, protecting them from potentially fatal infectious diseases. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for at least six months and should be continued complementarity for another year. One of the justifications for this recommended practice is the prevention of allergic diseases, which has been controversial for many years.

Cardiovascular risk factors in children.

Introduction: Systemic hypertension is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in childhood can potentially have a significant impact on future adverse outcomes.

Objective: To investigate the relationship of diastolic (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) with anthropometric data and area of residence of children in municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

Positive association between waist-to-height ratio and hypertension in adolescents.

Introduction: The obesity and overweight epidemic, together with increasing cardiovascular disease, represent a major public health problem worldwide, and their occurrence in childhood and adolescence has increased in recent decades. The objective of this study was to assess the association between waist-to-height ratio (WHR) and the incidence of hypertension in adolescents.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of adolescents aged 10-17 years of both sexes attending municipal schools in inland Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

THE EFFECT OF GARCINIA CAMBOGIA AS COADJUVANT IN THE WEIGHT LOSS PROCESS.

Introduction: due to the significant increase in the obesity rate in recent years, public health has been facing in many countries of the world, one of the major problems caused by this disease. Because of this, natural products arise, herbal, to assist in the treatment of obesity due to their safer effects. Among these, stands out the extract obtained from dried fruits of Garcinia Cambogia (GC), which has been studied and used as a natural supplement for weight loss.

APPLICATILITY OF THE VISCERAL ADIPOSITY INDEX (VAI) IN THE PREDICTION OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IN ELDERLY.

Unlabelled: The nutritional assessment may detect a state of malnutrition, overweight and cardiometabolic risk in the elderly. Easy to apply instruments enable the identification of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

Objective: to analyze the applicability of Visceral Adiposity Index (VAI) in the prediction of MS components in the elderly.

Perception of body image of adolescents and of their parents in relation to the nutritional status and blood pressure.

Unlabelled: The perception of body image of adolescents is an instrument for nutritional assessment to health conditions.

Objective: To verify the body image perception of adolescents and their parents in relation to nutritional status and blood pressure levels.

Methods: Population-based study, and cross-sectional model, conducted with parents and adolescents aged 10-19 years old, in rural and urban zones in public schools.