Evelia Oyhenart

• PhD Natural Science
• Senior Researcher at National University of La Plata

Objectives: Our previous research in Mbyá-guaraní communities of central Misiones showed high levels of growth stunting and intestinal parasites in children, as well as associations between these variables and deficient sanitary conditions. New studies were necessary to update the present health status of the previously studied Mbyá populations af...

RESUMEN Introducción: Analizar la composición corporal es fundamental en la valoración del estado nutricional del individuo. Consiste en cuantificar los componentes corporales y su va-riabilidad durante el crecimiento y entre sexos. Considerando el vacío de información en esta temática, el objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar el dimorfismo se...

La urbanización creciente y acelerada, promueve patrones de vida sedentarios y de alimentación poco saludable que incrementan el sobrepeso y la obesidad infantil. Desde una perspectiva antropológica, el objetivo del trabajo fue conocer las prevalencias de exceso de peso y los hábitos alimentarios y de actividad física de niños y niñas residentes en...

The present work aims to analyze in schoolchildren living in the productive belt of La Plata: a) the relationship between high blood pressure (HBP) and excess weight (EW), and b) the geographical distribution of that relationship. During the 2015-2017 school years, the systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), weight (kg), and height (cm) of 2,...

La Antropología Biológica estudia los procesos de diferenciación entre poblaciones humanas, producidos por la interacción dinámico-sistémica entre la propia variabilidad intragrupal y el ambiente. Entre las problemáticas que aborda esta disciplina se encuentra la malnutrición infantil. En Argentina, un estudio que incluyó escolares de provincias de...

The aim of this work was to know the nutritional status and the environmental and socio-economic characteristics of schoolchildren residing in the productive peri-urban area of La Plata city, Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the 2014-2017 school years, weight and height were measured and body mass index was calculated for 3,696 schoolchildren, betwe...

Introduction: The double burden of malnutrition can occur in a region, household or even in the same child. Within the same country there are variations in the prevalence of nutritional status according to the degree of urbanization and the socio-economic level. Urban population of the metropolitan area of Mendoza growth 11% during the intercensal...

The aim of this study was to evaluate body composition in relation to nutritional status and socio-environmental conditions of residence in schoolchildren living in the urban periphery of La Plata, Argentina. Weight, height, arm circumference and tricipital and subscapular skinfolds were measured in 3,284 schoolchildren aged 4-12 years in the perio...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of high blood pressure in schoolchildren aged 4-14 years from urban peripheral areas of the city of La Plata, and analyze variations in high blood pressure prevalence by sex, age, excess weight and family socioeconomic status. Materials and methods: Systolic and diastolic blood...

Menarche and nutritional status in peri-urban girls of La Plata city, Argentina. Menarche is an important maturation milestone. It normally occurs at an average age of 12.5 years and is influenced by genetic and/or environmental factors. The aim of this study was to analyze in girls residing at suburbs of La Plata city a) the median age of menarche...

Background: It has been shown that modern life style with reduced physical activity can lead to lower bone accumulation. Also a decline trend in external skeletal robustness in children and young adolescents, measured by the Frame Index (FI), seems to have a parallel trend with the increase in overweight and obesity. Based on these findings we esti...

Despite significant positive developments within topics of biological anthropology, archaeology, and related academic areas in Latin America, we noted a lack of coordination and communication among them. Available publications provide syntheses within different areas of biological anthropology, yet few have attempted integration of the distinct sub...

Objective The Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) can only be applied to children under 5 years of age and does not contemplate obesity. The aim of this study was to propose an Extended CIAF (ECIAF) that combines the characterization of malnutrition due to undernutrition and excess weight, and apply it in six Argentine provinces. Desi...

Introduction: The double burden of malnutrition constitutes a challenge for public health and an increasing problem in Latin America and the Caribbean. The population analysis of Puerto Madryn is interesting given that this city recorded since 1970 the highest demographic growth in Argentina. However, the reduction in the level of industrialization...

RESUMEN Introducción: La circunferencia del brazo (CB) se reconoce como buen indicador del estado nutricional. Objetivo: Estimar los percentilos de referencia para la CB y las áreas muscular (AM) y grasa (AG) del brazo en la población infantojuvenil argentina mediante el empleo del método LMS (lambda, mu, sigma, en inglés). Materiales y métodos: La...

RESUMEN Introducción: La circunferencia del brazo (CB) se reconoce como buen indicador del estado nutricional. Objetivo: Estimar los percentilos de referencia para la CB y las áreas muscular (AM) y grasa (AG) del brazo en la población infantojuvenil argentina mediante el empleo del método LMS (lambda, mu, sigma, en inglés). Materiales y métodos: La...

Introduction: Background: mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), subcutaneous fat and muscle measurements are an alternative method to diagnose overweight and evaluate growth as well as protein and energy reserves. Aim: to compare MUAC, arm muscle area (AMA) and arm fat area (AFA) measurements of Argentinean boys and girls (Sa) with reference curves...

Homenaje a Hector Mario Pucciarelli

Objective To evaluate intestinal parasitosis, undernutrition and socio-environmental factors in schoolchildren from Clorinda (Formosa, Argentina). Materials and Methods Serial fecal samples and anal swabs of 114 schoolchildren, canine feces and soil samples were analyzed. Body weight and height of 215 schoolchildren were measured and undernutritio...

Introduction: Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) is widely recognized as an adequate indicator of nutritional status. Objective: To estimate the reference percentiles for MUAC, upper arm muscle area (UAMA), and upper arm fat area (UAFA) in the Argentine child and adolescent population using the LMS method (lambda, mu, sigma) Materials and methods:...

Como parte de esta labor de edición en idioma español, que SEDCA y su Fundación consideran esenciales dentro del ámbito científico, se han publicado los libros anteriores de "Avances..." de 2012 a 2018. Asimismo, se ha promovido la edición de otras obras como Nutrición y alimentación en el ám-bito escolar (Ed. Ergón, 2012), el Manual de la alimenta...

El objetivo fue evaluar y comparar el estado nutricional en poblaciones infanto-juveniles residentes en cuatro partidos de la provincia de Buenos Aires y observar si existen diferencias vinculadas a los contextos ambientales y socioeconómicos particulares, en el marco de la transición nutricional. Entre los ciclos lectivos 2008-2012, se relevó el p...

RESUMEN Objetivo Estimar el estado nutricional de dos cohortes (C) de niños concurrentes a escuelas de barrios con diferentes Necesidades Básicas Insatisfechas (NBI) de Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Métodos Investigación transversal. Se midieron peso y talla de niños de seis a 11 años asistentes a escuelas ubicadas en siete barrios. La C1 (n=2 040) fue...

Objective : To assess nutritional condition in two cohorts (C) of children from households with different Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN) attending neighborhood schools in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Methods : A cross-sectional study on six to 11 year-old children attending seven neighborhood schools surveyed in the periods 2001-2006 (C1, n=2 040) a...

A fin de indagar la incidencia de los cambios acaecidos en los ámbitos urbano y rural, el objetivo del estudio fue caracterizar y comparar la expresión del crecimiento infanto-juvenil en los partidos bonaerenses de La Plata, Brandsen, Magdalena y Punta Indio. Se realizó un estudio antropométrico transversal en 7875 niños/as de 4,0-12,9 años de edad...

Antecedentes: se considera que el conocimiento que guía nuestras prácticas es socialmente elaborado y compartido y que la variabilidad en las elecciones en torno a la alimentación se relaciona con la variabilidad en las condiciones de vida. Objetivo: indagar acerca de prácticas (acciones) y representaciones (ideas subyacentes) en torno a la alimen...

En Argentina, la “ruralidad” es definida comúnmente como “aquello que no es urbano” empleando diferentes criterios i.e. geográficos o estadísticos. El objetivo es analizar el estado nutricional en relación a las características socio-ambientales en que residen los niños de Magdalena (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Se realizó un estudio transversal en 42...

Objetivo Determinar la distribución de las enteroparasitosis en niños de nueve provincias representativas del mosaico de ambientes contrastantes de Argentina. Métodos Estudio descriptivo, observacional y transversal en niños preescolares (de 5 años o menos) y escolares (de 6 a 14 años) de las provincias de Buenos Aires (muestra tomada entre 2005 y...

Objetivo. Determinar la distribución de las enteroparasitosis en niños de nueve provincias representativas del mosaico de ambientes contrastantes de Argentina. Métodos. Estudio descriptivo, observacional y transversal en niños preescolares (de 5 años o menos) y escolares (de 6 a 14 años) de las provincias de Buenos Aires (muestra tomada entre 2005...

The analysis of nutritional status is anthropologically important to address the complex interaction of biological, social, political, economic and cultural factors. To deepen the knowledge about contexts of occurrence of child malnutrition, we analyzed nutritional status in relation to socio-environmental conditions of residence in children betwee...

Introduction: In the recent decades a rapid increase of excess weight has been observed. Difficulties in having access to adequate food predispose children to being overweight or obese and many of them are also anemic or have a deficit in the muscle tissue. Objective: To analyze the body composition of overweight or obese children living in two Arg...

Objetivo: Indagar a) si existen diferencias en las condiciones de vida estimadas a partir de variables socio-económicas, entre familias con niños de 3 a 6 años de edad, residentes en zonas urbana, periurbana y rural del departamento de Villaguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina; y b) en caso de haberlas, si esas diferencias se expresan en el estado nutricion...

The aim of this work was to evaluate nutritional status, body composition, and proportion in relation to socioenvironmental conditions of residence in the infant-juvenile population of three towns in the district of Punta Indio, in Buenos Aires. A cross-sectional study was performed in 845 children (47.5% male and 52.5% female) 3 to 15 years old. W...

La práctica experimental en Antropología no difiere en esencia de la de otras ciencias. Consiste en reproducir, bajo condiciones controladas, un hecho natural previamente observado, con el objetivo de estudiar su causa y efecto. Cuando se considera al hombre inmerso en un ambiente bio-físico-sociocultural, se torna dificultoso establecer patrones d...

El objetivo fue analizar en animales con retardo prenatal de crecimiento (RPC) el efecto de la subnutrición proteico-calórica lactacional y postlactacional sobre la morfología craneofacial, particularizando en el crecimiento de los componentes funcionales neural y facial. Ratas Wistar fueron divididas en los grupos: Control, RPC (inducido por ligam...

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to analyze the nutritional status and body composition of children from San Rafael, Mendoza, avoiding urban and rural categorization by generating subpopulations as a function of their socio-environmental characteristics. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in 3,596 schoolchildren from 4.0...

Background: The Argentinean population is characterized by ethnic, cultural and socio-economic diversity. Aim: To calculate the percentiles of weight-for-age (W/A) and height-for-age (H/A) of schoolchildren from Argentina employing the LMS method; and to compare the obtained percentiles with those of the international and national references. Subje...

Objectives: The aim was to analyze the socio-environmental variables associated with malnutrition and intestinal parasitoses in children from Aristóbulo del Valle, Province of Misiones (Argentina). Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in 2,291 schoolchildren (age, 4-14 years). Body weight and height were measured and body mass index wa...

Aim: To analyze the secular changes in body size and composition of two cohorts of children from La Plata City, Argentina, with a 35-year follow-up. subjects and methods: Cohort 1 (C1) was measured in 1969-1970 and included 1772 children (889 boys, 883 girls), and Cohort 2 (C2), measured in 2004-2005, included 1059 children (542 boys, 517 girls)....

The aim was to know and to analyse the prevalence of undernutrition and body composition and proportion in relationship to socio-environmental conditions of residence in children of two adjacent departments in the province of Mendoza: San Rafael (SR) and General Alvear (GA). A cross-sectional anthropometrical study was performed in 5.118 children f...

The aim of this paper was to analyze if intergenerational undernutrition causes growth retardation in weight and body length in two generations of rats and, if so, to assess whether the delay is cumulative. Male and female rats were assigned to one of the following groups: (1) control: they were fed ad libitum and constituted the parental generatio...

Introduction: The growth of children and young people is considered a sensitive indicator of the quality of social, economic and political environment in which they live. This leads to the need to of a deeper understanding of the complex interaction between biological and environmental factors. Objective: To analyze the nutritional status, body com...

The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of postnatal nutritional rehabilitation on the craniofacial growth in rats with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Wistar rats were assigned to one of the following groups: control, Sham-operated, and IUGR. The IUGR was produced by uterine vessels bending (day 14 of pregnancy). At days 1, 21, 42,...

In the present work, the nutritional status, intestinal parasitosis and socio-environmental conditions of children from the city centre and 11 localities of La Plata Department were characterized through a transversal study. Body weight and height were measured in 6.397 children aged 4.0 to 13.9 years old. Body mass index was calculated and the nut...

The purpose of the present work was to determine prevalence of intestinal parasitism and their associations with undernutrition and socio-environmental factors in school-children of the District of Villaguay, Entre Ríos. A cross-sectional study was performed in children of both sexes, aged 1 to 11 and they were grouped into two groups of age: ≤...

The purpose of this study was to analyze whether nutritional status and body composition varies according to the environment of residence (urban or rural) of children in the Brandsen district (Argentina). Weight, height, arm circumference and tricipital and subscapular skinfolds were performed in 1368 schoolchildren aged 3 to 14. NHANES III referen...

The goal of this study was to analyse the effect of growth hormone (GH) on catch-up growth of functional facial (splanchnocranial) and neurocranial components in rats with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Wistar rats were divided into the following groups: control (C), sham-operated (SH), IUGR, and IUGR + GH. IUGR was surgically induced and...

The aim of this study was to assess the morphological changes (in size and shape) in Intrauterine Growth Retarded (IUGR) rats treated with growth hormone. Wistar albino rats were divided into the following groups: Control, Sham-operated, Intrauterine growth retarded, and Intrauterine growth retarded injected with growth hormone. Intrauterine growth...

Integration and modularity are fundamental determinants of how natural selection effects evolutionary change in complex multivariate traits. Interest in the study of the specific developmental basis of integration through experimental approaches is fairly recent and it has mainly focused on its genetic determinants. In this study, we present eviden...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional status and body composition in Mbyá-Guaraní adolescents and adults from three communities in the Province of Misiones, in northern Argentina. Anthropometric parameters were analyzed in 45 individuals (aged 14-60). Data were transformed to z-scores using NHANES I and II. Ninety-three percent of t...

Nutritional transition has been described in various countries, each showing inherent characteristics. Furthermore, different patterns also appear within the same country. To compare the nutritional status of schoolchildren, of both sexes, living in two Argentine cities with different urban and environment characteristics, from the perspective of n...

The aim of this study was to analyze growth in relation to menarche in girls from two Argentinean urban populations. We performed a comparative-descriptive cross sectional study in 2474 schoolchildren between 8.0 and 16.9 years old from Santa Rosa (SR) and La Plata (LP) cities. We registered the presence of menarche and anthropometrics variables of...

Environmental perturbations of many kinds influence growth and development. Little is known, however, about the influence of environmental factors on the patterns of phenotypic integration observed in complex morphological traits. We analyze the changes in phenotypic variance-covariance structure of the rat skull throughout the early postnatal onto...

El objetivo del trabajo fue analizar comparativamente el crecimiento en relación con la menarca entre niñas de dos poblaciones urbanas argentinas. Se realizó un estudio antropométrico transversal, descriptivo-comparativo en 2.474 escolares comprendidas entre 8,0 y 16,9 años procedentes de Santa Rosa (SR) y La Plata (LP). Se registraron presencia de...

Introduction: The study of the growth and nutritional status of the individuals is considered an important sign of the population health, as well as the action of socio-economic and environmental factors. Objectives: To analyze the relationship among the nutritional status, enteroparasitoses and socio-environmental conditions in children from Arist...

El exceso de peso representa un problema emergente en salud pública, su prevalencia varía según zona de residencia, nivel socio-económico, edad y sexo. El objetivo del trabajo fue analizar las prevalencias de sobrepeso y obesidad en niños urbanos y rurales del Departamento de San Rafael, Mendoza, en relación a las condiciones socio-ambientales. Se...

This paper addresses the effect of a reduction of uterine blood flow (RUB) on postcranial bone growth in rats. The objectives were: (1) to discover and characterize the changes evoked by growth retardation through a reduction in placental blood flow, (2) to see if the resulting growth retardation is different in each bone, and (3) to analyze any se...

La diferenciación y adaptación ontogenética son temas centrales en antropología biológica por cuanto su modificación puede afectar la dinámica evolutiva poblacional. Numerosos factores estresantes actúan provocando variación en la expresión fenotípica y nuevas respuestas adaptativas. En el presente trabajo se determinó el crecimiento de niños de 5...

Introducción. Los factores socioambientales desempeñan un papel esencial en la etiología del sobrepeso (S) y la obesidad (O) y constituyen el llamado "entorno obesogénico". Los objetivos del presente trabajo son: a) estimar las prevalencias de sobrepeso y obesidad en escolares de 3 a 14 años del partido de Brandsen (Provincia de Buenos Aires) y b)...

Environmental factors play an important role in the etiology of overweight (S) and obesity (O), constituting the "obesogenic environment". The objectives of the present study are: a) to estimate overweight and obesity prevalences in 3 to 14 years-old schoolchildren from Brandsen (Provincia de Buenos Aires), and b) to analyze the probability of occu...

RESUMEN: En Argentina si bien se dispone de información de prevalencias de malnutrición (desnutrición y exceso de peso), existe dificultad en la comparación debido a que en la mayor parte de los casos hay disparidad en las técnicas y/o metodologías empleadas. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el estado nutricional de la población infanto...

We analyzed intestinal parasitic infections in children aged 1-12 years from a poor neighborhood in La Plata, Argentina, and determined the correlations with their nutritional status and socio-environmental conditions. We performed parasitological analyses with anal brushed technique (for Enterobius vermicularis eggs) and fecal samples, employing t...

The aim of this study was to assess the physical growth of schoolchildren from Argentina by comparison with the CDC/NCHS and Argentinean growth references (AGR), to contribute to the discussion about the use of local or international references for the assessment of growth in developing countries. Weight and height were measured in 3,411 schoolchil...

Indigenous communities in Argentina represent socially and economically neglected populations. They are living in extreme poverty and environmental degradation conditions. New information about health status and socio-environmental features is urgently needed to be applied in future sanitary policies. Present study describes the nutritional status,...

The aim of the present study was to examine the long-term effects of prenatal injure on body and craniofacial growth in intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR) animals and its correlation with histomorphometric changes of the pituitary somatotrope population. IUGR model was carried out by means of uterine vessels ligation in pregnant rats at 14th day o...

We analyzed the nutritional status of urban and rural schoolchildren from Mendoza (Argentina), but avoided rural and urban categorization by generating subpopulations as a function of their socioenvironmental characteristics. We transformed weight and height data into z-scores using the CDC/NCHS growth charts; defined underweight, stunting, and was...

Nutricional status and intestinal parasitosis were analyzed in 3 to 6 years old children residents in urban (U), periurban (PU) and rural (R) areas from Brandsen. These data were associated with socio-environmental characteristics of each area. Prevalence of low-height-for-age and intestinal parasites were significantly higher in PU than in U (p<0,...

To evaluate nutritional status and body composition as indicators of quality of life among poor children served by neighborhood soup kitchens in La Plata, Argentina. From April to November 2004, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 608 healthy children from 1-11 years of age who were being served by two neighborhood soup kitchens in the outlying...

El presente estudio describe las parasitosis más frecuentes en los niños de edad preescolar y escolar y establece las diferencias entre las zonas urbana (U), periurbana (PU) y rural (R) del Partido de Brandsen, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se procesaron 119 muestras de materia fecal y escobillado anal de niños entre 1 y 14 años. Se utilizaron las técni...

The present study describes the parasitoses in preschool and schoolchildren and the differences among urban (U), periurban (PU) and rural (R) areas of the Partido of Brandsen, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Faecal samples and anal brushed were collected in 119 children between 1 and 14 years old. The sedimentation (Ritchie) and flotation (Willis) techniq...

1 Centro de Investigaciones en Genética Básica y Aplicada (CIGEBA). Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias (UNLP). La Plata. Argentina. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). 3 Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-UNLP). Argentina. 4 Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP). La Plata. Argentina....

El presente trabajo informa sobre los resultados obtenidos producto de una experiencia de articulación entre la Universidad Nacional de La Plata con el Municipio de Brandsen (áreas salud y educación) y la comunidad. A partir de una convocatoria en el marco de la Expo Universidad 2002, el Municipio solicitó a la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity and the fat distribution pattern in Mbyá-Guaraní children and adults from Misiones, Argentina. Height, weight, and triceps and subscapular skinfolds were measured in 197 individuals aged 2-60 years. Body mass index (BMI), fat and muscle areas, and subscapular/tricipital...

The aim of the present study was to discover how intergenerational undernutrition affects the growth of major and minor functional cranial components in two generations of rats. Control animals constituted the parental generation (P). The undernourished generations (F1 and F2) were fed 75% of the control diet. Animals were X-rayed every 10 days fro...

Intestinal parasite infestation in indigenous Mbyá-Guaraní communities in Misiones, Argentina, was described and associated with nutritional status and environmental and cultural factors. The results were compared with those from Takuapí, a neighboring indigenous population, and the nearest urban population, Aristóbulo del Valle. The Ritchie, Willi...

Se describieron las enteroparasitosis más frecuentes en dos comunidades Mbyá-Guaraní de Misiones, Argentina: Kaaguy Poty e Yvy Pytá. Las parasitosis intestinales se asociaron con el estado nutricional de los individuos infectados y los factores ambientales y culturales que caracterizan a las poblaciones estudiadas. Los resultados se compararon con...

The aim of the present study was to assess body weight recovery in rats with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) castrated and treated with growth hormone (GH). Wistar albino rats were divided into the following experimental groups: control (C), sham-operated (SH), IUGR, IUGR castrated (IUGR+C), and IUGR castrated and injected with GH (IUGR+C+GH...

To evaluate if using an international growth reference versus a national growth reference leads to differences in the prevalences of low weight-for-height (wasting) and low height-for-age (stunting) in a sample of children 8 to 14 years old. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 1,470 school-children (both boys and girls) in the...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate if using an international growth reference versus a national growth reference leads to differences in the prevalences of low weight-for-height (wasting) and low height-for-age (stunting) in a sample of children 8 to 14 years old. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 1 470 school-children (both boy...

Aims: To identify which dimensions of the skeleton are associated with growth recovery in intrauterine growth retarded rats treated with GH. Material and Methods. Wistar rats were divided into Control (C), Sham-operated (Sh), IUGR and IUGR+GH. IUGR was induced by partial ligature of uterine vessels on day 14th of pregnancy. GH was administrated fro...

Introducción. Los países en desarrollo están sufriendo cambios de naturaleza económica, epidemiológica, demográfica y nutricional. En algunos de ellos, la transición nutricional presenta la coexistencia de desnutrición y obesidad.Objetivos. Determinar –mediante técnicas antropométricas– (a) el estado nutricional y las prevalencias de desnutrición y...

El objetivo del presente trabajo consiste en analizar el estado nutricional en niños residentes en tres ciudades argentinas con diferente complejidad urbano ambiental, en el contexto de la transición nutricional. Se realizó un estudio antropométrico transversal sobre una muestra de 5190 niños de ambos sexos de 4.0 a 14.9 años que asisten a escuelas...

The objective of this study was to analyse the effects of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and growth hormone (Gh) therapy on skeletal maturation in growth retarded rats. One-hundred and thirty-five rats constituted the groups: Control (C), Sham-operated (SH), IUGR and IUGR+Gh: injected with Genotropin 3.0 mg/kg/day) from 21 to 60 days of age...

The cumulative effect of undernutrition on successive generations was tested. The cranial growth of three generations of undernourished rats (F1, F2, F3) was compared to that of the parental generation (P), in order to (1) measure the extent to which the growth of each facial and neurocranial functional component was retarded when animals were unde...

Objective: To analyze the effects of GH and CA on skeletal maturation in IUGR rats. Material and Method: 204 Wistar pups were distributed into the following groups: Control (C), Sham-operated (S), IUGR, IUGR+GH, IUGR+CA y IUGR+CA+GH. IUGR was induced by partial uterine vessels ligation at 14th gestational day. GH treatment lasted from 21 to 60 days...

The cumulative effect of undernutrition on successive generations was tested. The cranial growth of three generations of undernourished rats (F1, F2, F3) was compared to that of the parental generation (P), in order to (1). measure the extent to which the growth of each facial and neurocranial functional component was retarded when animals were und...

The aim of this work was to analyze the action of growth hormone (GH) on postnatal body weight recovery in intrauterine growth-retarded (IUGR) rats. Wistar rats were assigned to three groups: 1) control; 2) IUGR and 3) sham-operated. Uterine vessels of dams in the IUGR group were partially bent on the 14th day of pregnancy. At weaning, some IUGR pu...

Growth and nutritional status of children and adults in two Mbyá-Guaraní communities from Argentina, was assessed. Height, weight, sitting height, upper arm circumference, triceps and subscapular skinfold were measured on 120 individuals aged from 2 to 60 between March and May, 2001. Data were transformed to z-scores using United States references...

The intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a complex phenomenon since it causes variability in postnatal growth responses. The aim of the present study was to analyze the effects of lactational rehabilitation on body and cranial growth and sexual dimorphism in IUGR rats. IUGR model was carried out by means of uterine vessels bending in pregnant...

The aims of this work were to analyse body and brain growth as produced by deficiencies in the uteroplacental blood supply, and to evaluate sexual responses to intrauterine stress. Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was experimentally induced in pregnant rats by partial obstruction in both uterine vessels at 1,7 and 14 gestational days. The dys...