Author | Dallazen, Camila | |
Author | Tietzmann, Daniela Cardoso | |
Author | Silva, Sara Araújo da | |
Author | Nilson, Eduardo Augusto Fernandes | |
Author | Gonçalves, Vivian Siqueira Santos | |
Author | Lang, Regina Maria Ferreira | |
Author | Crispim, Sandra Patricia | |
Author | Moreira, Júlia Dubois | |
Author | Garcia, Solange Cristina | |
Author | Vítolo, Márcia Regina | |
Access date | 2023-05-02T22:32:41Z | |
Available date | 2023-05-02T22:32:41Z | |
Document date | 2022 | |
Citation | DALLAZEN, Camila et al. Vitamin A deficiency and associated risk factors in children aged 12–59 months living in poorest municipalities in the South Region of Brazil. Public Health Nutrition, [s.l.], v.26, n. 1, p. 132–142, feb. 2022. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980022000325. Acesso em: 02 maio de 2023. | en_US |
ISSN | 1368-9800 | en_US |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/58115 | |
Description | Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Fiocruz Brasília. Brasília, DF, Brasil. Documento produzido em parceria ou por autor vinculado à Fiocruz, mas não consta à informação no documento. | en_US |
Sponsorship | Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento e Ministério da Saúde do Brasil | en_US |
Language | eng | en_US |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
Rights | open access | en_US |
MeSH | Vitamin A Deficiency | en_US |
MeSH | Child Health | en_US |
MeSH | Risk Groups | en_US |
MeSH | Cross-sectional studies | en_US |
Title | Vitamin A deficiency and associated risk factors in children aged 12–59 months living in poorest municipalities in the South Region of Brazil | en_US |
Type | Article | en_US |
DOI | 10.1017/S1368980022000325 | |
Abstract | Objective: To estimate the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in children
and associated risk factors.
Design: Analysis of data from a cross-sectional multicentre study performed in the
primary care units of the municipalities from January to June 2015. The children’s
legal guardians answered a socio-economic questionnaire, and the children’s
blood samples were obtained by venipuncture. Plasma retinol was determined
by HPLC. Plasma retinol values of <0·70 μmol/l were considered VDA. Poisson
multiple regression with robust variance was used. Values of P < 0·05 were considered significant. The data were analysed in the SPSS software, 21.0.
Setting: Forty-eight poorest municipalities in the South Region of Brazil.
Participants: Children (n 1503) aged 12–59 months.
Results: The prevalence of VAD in the sample was 1·9 % (95 % CI (0·5, 6·8)). The
following risk factors were associated with the outcome in the final explanatory
model: family received Bolsa Familia program benefits (PR = 3·19; 95 % CI
(1·69, 6·02)), child was not being breastfed (PR = 5·22; 95 % CI (1·68, 16·18))
and stunting (PR = 4·75; 95 % CI (2·10, 10·73)).
Conclusions: VAD did not represent a public health problem for children living in
socio-economically vulnerable municipalities in the South Region of Brazil, suggesting a new panorama of this nutritional deficiency even in regions of low
socio-economic conditions in these three states. Thus, in view of the current nutritional transition scenario, it is necessary to continuously monitor and improve public policies related to vitamin A supplementation in the country. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Nutrition Research Group. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Nutrition Research Group. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Brazilian Ministry of Health. Brasília, DF, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Brazilian Ministry of Health. Brasília, DF, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | University of Brasília. Brasília, DF, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Paraná. Curitiba, PR, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Paraná. Curitiba, PR, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Nutrition Research Group. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Subject | Vitamin A deficiency | en_US |
Subject | Risk factors | en_US |
Subject | Child | en_US |
Subject | Cross-sectional studies | en_US |
DeCS | Deficiência de Vitamina A | en_US |
DeCS | Saúde da Criança | en_US |
DeCS | Grupos de Risco | en_US |
DeCS | Estudos Transversais | en_US |
DeCS | Brasil | en_US |
e-ISSN | 1475-2727 | |