CV Lattes
ORCID
Abstract
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…