ASSOCIATION BETWEEN BREASTFEEDING AND OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY IN SCHOOLCHILDREN AGED 7-14 YEARS.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of breastfeeding (BF) and the association between occurrence/duration of BF and overweight/obesity in schoolchildren aged 7-14 years. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study, conducted in 2012-2013, on schoolchildren aged 7-14 years from Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil. Weight and height were measured according to procedures of the World Health Organization. Breastfeeding and sociodemographic data were obtained from a questionnaire responded by parents/guardians. BF was categorized as a dichotomous variable (yes/no) and according to duration (months). Nutritional status was evaluated according to the Z score of the body mass index per age for sex and it was categorized into two groups: normal weight (

Keywords:

• Demography
• Breastfeeding
• Correlation and dependence
• Logistic regression
• overweight obesity
• Body mass index
• Overweight
• Standard score
• Obesity
• Medicine

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