Nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate and its association with the nutritional status

Objective: to assess the potential association between non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) and weight and height gain. Subjects and methods: An analytic cross sectional study was donei n a sample conformed by 83 CLP children and 96 children without clefts. Sociodemographic and clinical variables were included as the presence of LPH, weight, height and nutritional status. For bivariate analyzes, Chi2 or Fisher exact test and Student t test or Wilcoxon Rank test were applied as appropriate. Logistic regression and the respective OR correction was performed. Results: the presence of lip and palate was associated with height (p=0.015), weight (p=0.030) and nutritional status (p=0.043); however, in the final adjusted model, the nutritional status was only statistically associated with the variable gender (p=0.031). Conclusions: the nutritional condition between cleft lip and palate and non-cleft children did not show a statistically significant difference, nor did the type of cleft.