Estado Nutricional De Crianças Em Municípios De Fronteira: Análise Temporal

Abstract

We aimed to analyze the temporal trend of the nutritional status of children aged 0 to 5 years old from Brazilian international border line municipalities. Ecological observational and time series study, analyzed secondary data from the period 2009 to 2018, obtained from the public access reports of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System of the Ministry of Health, through the Body Mass Index (BMI), using the indicators: marked thinness, thinness, eutrophy, risk of overweight, overweight, and obesity. Time trend analysis was performed using the Prais-Winstein regression test (SPSS program). The data were grouped according to the Northern, Central and Southern arches, totaling 891,013 children under 5 years of age. Children in the Southern arc had the highest percentages of risk of overweight (22.0%) and overweight (9.8%) and those in the Central arc had the highest percentages of marked thinness (3.2%), thinness (3.0%), and obesity (97.5%). The temporal analysis indicated a significant downward trend in extreme thinness and thinness of this public in the borderline municipalities of the Northern and Central arches and an upward trend in the risk of overweight in the Northern arch. It is concluded that there is a change in the nutritional profile of children aged 0 to 5 years in the analyzed municipalities with a reduction in the proportion of children with thinness and an increase in the risk of overweight.