Leonardo Trevisan Costa

Crescimento somático de crianças e adolescentes brasileiros com Síndrome de Down

INTRODUCAO: o crescimento e importante indicador de saude em criancas de modo geral, entretanto, sao raras as investigacoes desta variavel em pessoas com Sindrome de Down no BrasilOBJETIVO: O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar o crescimento somatico de criancas e adolescentes com Sindrome de Down brasileirasMETODO: trata-se de um estudo descritivo e transversal. A amostra foi composta por 68 criancas, sendo 37 meninos e 31 meninas com Sindrome de Down de 9 a 11 anos, para tal foram aferidas as medidas antropometricas: massa corporal, estatura e pregas cutâneas. Foram excluidas do estudo criancas com mosaicismo e doencas cardiacas severas. A analise dos dados foi realizada por meio do pacote estatistico SPSS 17.0, com indice de significância adotado de p INTRODUCTION: growth as a significant indicator of child health has been widely studied. However, the number of studies regarding this indicator in children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) in Brazil is still limited OBJECTIVE: the purpose of this study is to analyse the somatic growth of Brazilian children and adolescents with DS METHODS: a cross-sectional descriptive study. The sample was comprised of 68 children, 37 boys and 31 girls with DS, from nine to eleven years old. The anthropometric measurements taken were : body weight, height and skinfold thickness. Children with mosaicism and severe heart disease were excluded. For statistical analysis, the value of p

Proporção Corporal em Crianças e Adolescentes com Síndrome de Down

The present study aimed to evaluate the body proportions of sitting height and leg length in children and adolescents with Down’s syndrome (DS). The sample consisted of 99 individuals with DS (40 girls with an average age of 11.45 ± 2.6 years and 59 boys with an average age of 12.07 ± 3.0 years). The following parameters were studied: chronological age, height, sitting height and leg length. The body proportions of each segment were calculated using body indices and the Phantom model. For the statistical analysis, the normality test and descriptive analyses of central tendency and dispersion were performed, and Student’s t-test was used. For all treatments, the statistical software program SPSS version 13.0 was used, and a significance level of p < 0.05 was set. The body proportion of the upper and lower segments of children and adolescents with DS differed from those of the typical population in terms of leg length, whereas the seated height values of individuals with DS †were similar to those of individuals without DS.