CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at from Faculdade de Medicina da Fundação do Abc (1987), master's at Paediatrics from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1996) and ph.d. at Paediatrics from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2003). Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Paediatrics, acting on the following subjects: crianças, baixa estatura, crescimento, adolescentes and pediatria. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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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 dev…
The prevalence of low birth weight (LBW) is used as an indicator of public health and is related directly with the child morbidity and early neonatal mortality. It is also a risk factor for inadequacy of growth, neuropsychomotor development and increased injury risk to chronic non-communicable diseases in the future, such as hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascul…
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