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Abstract(s)
Background Nutritional problems related to under or overweight in
women have been shown itself as a relevant issue to health and
quality of life, affecting mainly older women.
Objective To compare the anthropometric data of Portuguese and
Brazilian women studied on the 4th National Health Inquiry (48 In-
que´rito Nacional de Sau´de, INS-2005-2006, Portugal) and on the
National Research of Demography and Health (Pesquisa Nacional de
Demografia e Sau´de, PNDS-2006, Brazil).
Methods This work is a result of a data comparison between the Por-
tuguese and the Brazilian national inquiries, respectively, INS-2005/
2006 and PNDS-2006. Both researches represent the population of the
countries and were based on transversal studies. The nutritional status of
the women from 18 to 44 years old was evaluated using the body mass
index, as recommended by the World Health Organization (1995). The
prevalence of underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese
women in the total sample was studied in three age groups (18–24,
25–34, 35–44). The statistical significance was considered for p\0.05.
Results The population was of 2,048,623 women in Portugal and
12,167 in Brazil. There were no significant statistical differences
between the occurrences of underweight women on the studied
countries. However, there were significant differences between nor-
mal weight, overweight and obese women on the total sample and on
the different age groups. The greater prevalence of normal weight
women was found in Portuguese group (p\0.001). Overweight and
obese women were found more prevalent in the Brazilian group
(p\0.001). On both countries the occurrence of overweight and
obesity increase while the occurrence of underweight decrease on
higher age ranges.
Conclusions High overweight and obesity prevalence were found on
women of both countries, with higher proportions on the Brazilian
group. Health promotion measures and stimulus to healthy nourish-
ment have shown itself as essential to avoid the emergence of
morbidities related with nutritional status of women belonging to all
age groups, especially on the higher ranges.
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Keywords
National health surveys
Citation
Santos Costa, Caroline; Marmitt, Luana Patrícia; Oliveira Meller, Fernanda, Ferro-Lebres, Vera (2012). National Health Surveys: anthropometric data of Portuguese and Brazilian women: INS 2005–2006 and PNDS 2006. In The IEA-EEF European Congress of Epidemiology 2012: Epidemiology for a Fair and Healthy Society. Porto. ISSN 0393-2990. p. s192-s192
Publisher
Springer - European Journal of Epidemiology