Author:

• Aline dos Santos Sampaio - Sampaio, Aline dos Santos - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pediatria e Saúde da Criança - <aline.s.sampaio@hotmail.com.br> +

Co-author(s):

• Rita Mattiello - Mattiello, Rita - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), - <rita.mattiello@pucrs.br>
• Eduardo Mundstock - Mundstock, Eduardo - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) - <eduardo.mundstock@acad.pucrs.br>
• Suelen Goecks - Goecks, Suelen - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) - <suelengoecks@hotmail.com>
• Edgar I. Sarria - Sarria, Edgar I. - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Escola de Medicina - <esarria@outlook.com>
• Franceliane Jobim Benedetti - Benedetti, F. J. - Centro Universitario Franciscano - <francijb@yahoo.com.br>
• Vera Lúcia Bosa - BOSA, V.L. - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro de Estudos em Alimentação e Nutrição do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - <vlbosa.nut@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-9640
• Caroline Abud Drumond Costa - Costa, Caroline Abud Drumond - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), - <carol.abud@yahoo.com.br>
• Matias Epifanio - Epifanio, Matias - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) - <mepifanio@hotmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente

Abstract:

Objective: systematically review the evidence on nutritional assessment techniques and parameters used to determine the nutritional status of children and adolescents.
Settings: the literature review and the selection of publications were performed using theMEDILINE, LILACS, SCIELO, EMBASE, personal files.
Results: 17 studies were identified, 7 addressed the anthropometric indices as the main outcome, 7 analyzed the growth and development of children and adolescents through growth curves, and the remainder surveyed body composition. In general, all met the quality criteria, unless 6 of the articles who did not discuss the limitations.
Conclusion:The literature review suggests several techniques and parameters that can be applied to determine the nutritional status of children and adolescents from different countries.
Growth graphs are essential to assess the health of children, but depend greatly of the growth tables used.Although BMI can be practical, it does not distinguish body fat from lean mass. The best interpretation of anthropometrywill depend of valid reference values for age range of the study population.
BIA is a quick feasible method, , but the measurement has some various nationalities.

Keywords:

StatusChildrenBody composition

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