Avaliação bioquímica dos níveis de vitamina A em indivíduos participantes do Programa Nacional de Suplementação de Vitamina A do Ministério da Saúde.

Abstract

In Brazil, in recent decades, vitamin A deficiency has been considered a public health problem, especially in the Northeast region and in some places in the Southeast and North regions. In this context, the Ministry of Health, in partnership with the State and Municipal Health Secretariats, has been developing since 2005 the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program, together with other actions to prevent vitamin A deficiency, in areas considered at risk. In this context, this research aimed to evaluate the possible effects of vitamin A supplementation on participants of the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program.

database of the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program, the quantitative of 21 (twenty- one) children aged between 04 and 07 years, being 13 (thirteen) males and 08 (eight) females.

The average value of Vitamin A recorded was 2.17 μmol/L for all children, while for male individuals the average value was 2.88 μmol/L and for female individuals the average value was 1.35 μmol/L, being above the minimum limit that characterizes the deficiency (0.70 μmol/L), thus all children participating in the study had adequate levels of Vitamin A. The mean values of the ASL, ALT, HDL parameters -C, LDL-C, TC and TG for all children were 17.52 IU/L, 19.21 IU/L, 48.37 mg/dL, 97.88 mg/dL, 154.91 mg/dL and 58 .84 mg/dL, respectively, being within the reference values for this age group. In the results of red blood cells, hematocrits and hemoglobin, the mean values for all children were 4 million/mm3, 36.0% and 11.7 g/dL, respectively. In the ABO blood typing test, the most present was type O and for the Rh factor, it was the Rh-. Satisfactory performance was verified in the activities of vitamin A supplementation in children from the municipal day care center assisted by the family health strategy of Parari-PB, and these measures are fundamental to fight diseases and infections, in addition to promoting the regular growth of children.