Trend in childhood obesity reflects socioeconomic status in Argentina.

Surveillance of childhood obesity is essential to guide preventive policies and interventions. To analyse trends in overweight and obesity by socioeconomic status (SES) in Argentinian schoolchildren during the last decade. Two cross-sectional studies in schoolchildren aged 6-12 years were compared.

[Quali-quantitative study of nutritional status and eating patterns in children aged 1-3 years from low-income families in two population groups with different productive activities (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2007-2008].

The aim of this article is to describe the nutritional status and eating patterns of children aged 1-3 years from low-income families who reside in areas with different productive activities: primary production and production of goods and services. A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed with a qualitative and quantitative methodology, evaluating anthropometric and biochemical nutritional status, food intake, economic and demographic characteristics, dietary practices and representations. The results show that children from areas of primary production had a lower prevalence of anemia and iron deficiency.

Anemia in Children Aged Four to Eight from a Semirural Community in Central East Area of Argentina.

We present the results of the first stage of the Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasitosis and Nutrition, analyzing the frequency of anemia and its relation with intestinal parasitic infections and socio-cultural and environmental factors present in school children from a semirural community of Argentina. A total of 123 children aged 4-8 years were interviewed; 93 (75.6%) of them showed up for blood extraction and a fecal sample was taken properly.

Weight and height centiles of Argentinian children and adolescents: a comparison with WHO and national growth references.

Background: Studies in several countries comparing the performance of WHO references and their own national growth standards reported differences that could affect screening and growth monitoring.

Aim: To estimate weight and height centiles on a sample of Argentinian children and adolescents and compare selected centiles with WHO and national growth references.

Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional school survey was conducted on 6239 boys and girls aged 5-18.

Nutritional status in parasitized and nonparasitized children from two districts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Unlabelled: The Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasites and Nutrition was designed to intervene in small communities to prevent and control the effects of parasitic infections on children's health.

Objectives: To analyze the association between nutritional status and parasitic infection in suburban and rural children from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Methods: Nutritional status was assessed by anthropometric (weight, height, BMI, skinfolds, upper arm circumference, muscle, and fat upper arm areas) and biochemical (Hb, Ca, Mg, Zn, and Cu) indicators.

Age at menarche in urban Argentinian girls: association with biological and socioeconomic factors.

Age at menarche is regarded as a sensitive indicator of physical, biological, and psychosocial environment. The aim of this study was to determine the age at menarche and its association with biological and socioeconomic factors in girls from Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). An observational cross-sectional study was carried out on 1,221 schoolgirls aged 9-15 years.

[Community participation in the control of intestinal parasitoses at a rural site in Argentina].

Objectives: To design, implement, and evaluate a complex plan of actions aimed at reducing parasitoses in a rural town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the involvement of the community.

Methods: The project took place in General Mansilla, Buenos Aires province, in three stages. First, the initial epidemiological situation of intestinal parasitoses in the community was assessed by analyzing for parasites a series of stool samples and anal swabs taken from a sample of 522 individuals.

Universal versus selective screening for the detection, control and prognosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in Argentina.

In all, 1,702 unselected pregnant women from the city of La Plata were tested for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and evaluated to determine GDM prevalence and risk factors. In women with GDM, we evaluated compliance with guidelines for GDM management, and perinatal complications attributable to GDM. GDM prevalence was 5.

Vanadyl(IV) complexes with saccharides. Bioactivity in osteoblast-like cells in culture.

Complexes of vanadyl(IV) with 4 monosaccharides and 5 disaccharides were tested in 2 osteoblast-like cell lines (MC3T3E1 and UMR106). Many complexes caused stimulation of UMR106 proliferation (120% basal) in the range of 2.5 to 25 micromol/L.

Epidemiological survey of Giardia spp. and Blastocystis hominis in an Argentinian rural community.

The aim of this study was to relate personal data, socio-cultural and environmental characteristics, and the presence of symptoms/signs with the frequencies of Giardia spp. and Blastocystis hominis among a rural population in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Of the surveyed population (350), 3.

Enterobius vermicularis infection among population of General Mansilla, Argentina.

Aim: To evaluate the relationships between the personal, sociocultural, and environmental characteristics, and the presence or absence of symptoms with the detection of Enterobius vermicularis (E. vermicularis) in a population sample in our region (General Mansilla, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina), by individual and familiar analyses.

Methods: E.