0878/2011 - Trabalho e desgaste de migrantes no corte manual de cana de açúcar no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil
Work and wear-out of migrants in the manual harvesting of sugarcane in São Paulo, Brazil
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Author:
• Verônica Gronau Luz - Luz, V.G. - Campinas, SP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas - <veronicaluz@uol.com.br>Co-author(s):
• Heleno Rodrigues Corrêa Filho - Corrêa-Filho, H.R. - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social - <helenocorrea@uol.com.br>ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8056-8824
• Alessandro José Nunes da Silva - Silva, A.J.N. - Centro de Referência e Saúde do Trabalhador, Piracicaba - <alejnsilva@yahoo.com.br>
• Erivelton Fontana de Laat - Laat, E.F. - Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste, Departamento de Educação Física - <eriveltonlaat@hotmail.com>
• Rodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela - Vilela, R.A.G - São Paulo, - Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Saúde Ambiental - <ravilela@usp.br> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8556-2189
• Fernando Oliveira Catanho da Silva - Silva, F.O.C. - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departamento de Bioquímica - <ocatanho@gmail.com>
• Lia Thieme Oikawa Zangirolani - Zangirolani, L.T.O - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Faculdade de Nutrição - <liaoikawa@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9966-5701
Thematic Area:
Saúde e TrabalhoAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: Describe the work of sugarcane manual harvesters, assessing the nutritional behavior and body composition from beginning to end of the harvest.METHOD: A descriptive longitudinal study was carried out on harvesters in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, who answered a socio-demographic questionnaire and allowed the measurement of Body Mass Index, Body Fat Percentage and Arm Muscle Circumference in three stages. Creatine kinase was measured at the end of the harvest in skeletal isoform, C-reactive protein and plasma urea.
RESULTS: During nine months, 30 male harvesters, migrants from the Northeast (Ceará), were assessed. The ages ranged from 18 to 44. The workers had significant body fat and weight loss in the first half of the harvest. Most gained lean body mass, except for those in the activity for a prolonged period of time, who gained less. Eighteen workers had abnormal values of creatine kinase and four, out of 24 who had donated blood, had their urea altered.
CONCLUSION: Working with sugarcane harvest causes weight and body fat losses and gains in lean body mass index, which wears out throughout the history of working in consecutive years. It can cause changes in biochemical markers of chronic systemic inflammation. Further studies would help to understand the relationship among stress, exhaustion, employment longevity and health for this kind of work.
