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Nutrición Hospitalaria

versão On-line ISSN 1699-5198versão impressa ISSN 0212-1611

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DURA TRAVE, T.. Influence of nutritional education on management of infantile-juvenile obesity. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2006, vol.21, n.3, pp.307-312. ISSN 1699-5198.

Objective: To analyze the therapeutic response in a group of obese patients to a therapy program based on nutritional education, auto-management, and intensive follow-up. Material and methods: Sixty clinical charts have been reviewed of patients with exogenous obesity (42 female and 18 male patients) submitted to management program and intensive follow-up (every three months controls) for continuous period of 24 months. The following variables were registered: sex, chronological age (CA), bone age (BA), and percent body mass index (%BMI) in he first visit; %BMI in each control day, and therapeutic response (drop-outs, improvements, and failures) at 12 and 24 months of follow-up. Results: Mean values for age and CA/BA ratio were 9.7 years (males: 9.7; and females: 9.7), and 1.12 (males: 1.1; and females: 1.12), respectively. Average basal %BMI was 144.7 (95% CI: 4.4), being significantly higher in male patients. There was a progressive decrease from basal %BMI that was statistically significant from 18 months of follow-up in female patients (p < 0.05). At 12 and 24 months of follow-up, 20% and 30% had mild improvement, although 58.3% and 60% had a decreased basal %BMI, respectively. At 24 months of follow-up, the rate failure was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in males (83.3% vs 42.8%), where the success rate was higher among females (40.5% vs 5.5%), the total dropout rate being 15%. Growth was kept normal independently of gender and/or therapeutic response. Conclusions: Individualized information and intensive follow-up favor good acceptance and/or adhesion to the therapeutic program, and it allows for instilling health education to patients and/or relatives that, particularly in motivated patients, conditions a series of behavioral rules essential for controlling obesity.

Palavras-chave : Nutritional education; Infantile-juvenile obesity; Management.

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