摘要：Sotão S, Silva-Filho AC, Dias-Filho CAA, Dutra-Macêdo S, Mendes-Vieira A, Dias CJ, Pacheco LN, Nogueira M, Navarro F, Gambassi BB, Furtado FA, Salvador EP, Mostarda C. Nutritional Profile of Adolescents Living in Urban and Rural Areas of a State in Northeast Brazil. JEPonline 2019;22(3):12-22. The purpose of this study was to evaluate body composition and nutritional status in 576 adolescents living in rural (RUR) and urban (URB) areas. The subjects were submitted to body composition and nutritional status assessments using the AnthroPlus software. Z-stature and Z-BMI calculations were performed. A multivariate logistic regression was also conducted and the Hosmer-Lemeshow test was used to verify the predictive capacity of the applied model. Statistical significance was set at an alpha level of P<0.05. The RUR adolescents showed significantly lower values of weight and height for age, while the adolescents of the URB demonstrated normality in these indices. In addition, adolescents in the RUR showed a risk of up to 6.29 times for short stature and 2.85 times for low weight, while adolescents of the URB presented a risk of 4.13 times for obesity. The RUR adolescents are at a high nutritional risk, while the URB adolescentsare at a high risk for obesity.
