CORRELATION BETWEEN SARS-COV-2 HEALTH EMERGENCY AND CHILD OBESITY: ECOLOGICAL STUDY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592152215038

• Palavras-chave: Child obesity, SARS-COV,COVID-19.

• Keywords: Child obesity, SARS-COV,COVID-19.

• Abstract:

  Introduction: The pandemic induced by SARS-CoV-2 affects families in situations of vulnerability and thus requires that adaptations related to food be made, such as the substitution of foods with good nutritional content for those with excessive glycidic composition, and which, with consequences, have the Obesity, which in Brazil affects about 13.2% of children aged 5-9 years treated in the Unified Health System (SUS). Objective: to analyze the possible correlation of the health situation of SARS-CoV-2 with childhood obesity. Method: This is an ecological time series study in which information was collected in the City's epidemiological surveillance system. As well as analyzed the data available in the Food and Nutrition Surveillance system in order to observe the panorama of Obesity in this population. The search took place in August 2021. The variables analyzed using descriptive statistics were the Child Body Mass Index (BMI), accessibility to health services, based on the diagnosis of Obesity. 

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