Incidence of overweight and obesity in the 6th year classes of elementary school at a state public network college in Ponta Grossa - Paraná

• Main Authors: Lilian Fátima Machado dos Santos, Diego Petyk de Sousa, Erica Fernanda de Paula
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados 2020-12-01
• Series: Horizontes
• Subjects: obesidade. sobrepeso. avaliação nutricional. índice de massa corporal. criança.
• Online Access: https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/index.php/horizontes/article/view/11985

Bearing in mind the existence of overweight in schoolchildren, we aim to verify the incidence of overweight and obesity in the 6th grade classes of Elementary School at a public school in Ponta Grossa - Paraná, between the years 2015 to 2019. For this purpose, we use methodological resources of the explanatory research. We analyzed the body mass index of 833 schoolchildren. Therefore, we identified that 26,94% of the male schoolchildren and 33,75% of female schoolchildren were overweight, what allowed us that such comorbidities are predominant in the female students. Also allowed us that is necessary interventions for the change in this situation within the school over the final years of Elementary School, seeking to decrease the prevalence and avoiding complications in the adulthood. Lastly, we observed that data of the school in Ponta Grossa are superior than the national, although inferior or less similar than other data of South region.