Avaliação antropométrica de pacientes com paralisia cerebral: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

The term cerebral palsy (CP) describes disorders of movement and posture caused by a non-progressive brain injury ocurring during childhood. Patients with this condition have a number of comorbities, including malnutrition. Thus, the aim of the presente review was to verify the methods of antrhopometric evaluation that suits this population. Thus data base indexed articles were obtained from searches with diferente combinations of descriptors: “cerebral palsy”, “nutritional assessment” and “antrhopometry”. The list of bibliographic references of the selected articles were also used. Therefore, the nutritional goals of patients with CP should be based on the specific methods of evaluation for this population. However, there are still many parameters that have not been validated and in this sense more studies are needed to improve nutritional interventions. Keywords: cerebral palsy, nutrition assessment, anthropometry, growthcharts