Practices of infant food with low birth weight: compared growth, nutritional condition and micronutrients and adipokines

• Grant number: 16/09428-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: August 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi
• Grantee: Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The increased survival of preterm and low birth weight infants (LBW) in parallel to the rise in the prevalence of overweight and its morbidities, reflects new demands and issues to be investigated for health professionals. The importance of adequate nutrition in the first months of life, especially during the introduction of complementary feeding, is related to the suitable growth and development, as well as the prevention of chronic diseases in adulthood. National surveys show many inadequacies in feeding practices of infants; however, little is known about the dietary intake of children with low birth weight, they become more vulnerable to metabolic changes forward to fast catch-up growth. LBW infants are increased risk for the development of nutritional and metabolic disorders, on the other hand the health professionals and parents have great expectations that these children quickly recover their growth potential. There are still many doubts which would be the ideal growth rate for infants and which dietary practices are involved in this process. The objective of this study is to describe feeding practices in the first year of life and verify associations with catch-up growth, nutritional status, dietary intake, the concentration of micronutrients, adipokines and IGF-1 in low birth weight infants. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PEREIRA VIVI, ANNA CAROLINE; AZEVEDO-SILVA, TALITA RODRIGUES; NERI, DANIELA; LOUZADA STRUFALDI, MARIA WANY; LEBRAO, CIBELE WOLF; AFFONSO FONSECA, FERNANDO LUIZ; SACCARDO SARNI, ROSELI OSELKA; SUANO-SOUZA, FABIOLA ISABEL. Association between ultraprocessed food intake and c-reactive protein levels in preterm and term infants. NUTRITION, v. 99-100, p. 7-pg., 2022-05-13. (16/09428-1)

FERNANDEZ, JULIANA S.; SUANO-SOUZA, FABIOLA, I; FRANCO, MARIA DO CARMO; FONSECA, FERNANDO L.; STRUFALDI, MARIA WANY L.. Leptin and adiponectin concentrations in infants with low birth weight: relationship with maternal health and postnatal growth. JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE, v. 13, n. 3, p. 7-pg., 2021-06-28. (16/09428-1)

AZEVEDO-SILVA, TALITA RODRIGUES; PEREIRA VIVI, ANNA CAROLINE; AFFONSO FONSECA, FERNANDO LUIZ; LEBRAO, CIBELE WOLF; LOUZADA STRUFALDI, MARIA WANY; SACCARDO SARNI, ROSELI OSELKA; SUANO-SOUZA, FABIOLA ISABEL. Association of serum and erythrocyte zinc levels with breastfeeding and complementary feeding in preterm and term infants. JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE, v. 14, n. 1, p. 8-pg., 2022-07-29. (16/09428-1)