Rev. paul. pediatr. vol.32 número2

A study with 610 adolescents between 12 and 19 years old from public schools in Niterói, RJ, Brazil, evaluated the associa- tion between measurements of central body fat

Providing adolescents and their families/carers with information and practical ex- amples of sources of foods rich in calcium, their quantities in each food and the factors

Objective: To evaluate the correlation between neck circumference and insulin resistance and components of metabolic syndrome in adolescents with different adiposity levels

With the signiicant increase in the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents and the direct relationship of this nutritional disorder with the develop- ment of HS,

Petribú et al (20) conducted a study to investigate prevalence of overweight and obesity and identify factors associated with them in Secondary Education students at

In view of this, in order to attempt to exclude the effect of high arterial blood pressure on cardiac autonomic modulation, the objective of this study was to test the

Objective: To assess and compare the respiratory muscle strength among eutrophic, overweight and obese school children, as well as to identify anthropometric and respira-

Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of headaches and its impact on ADL in female adolescents in a public school in Petrolina, state of Pernambuco,