"absorbent article including an absorbent structure". The invention relates to an absorbent article such as a diaper, an incontinence protector, a sanitary towel or the like, having a transverse direction, a longitudinal direction and a central axis (ii) extending in the longitudinal direction, and a thickness, the article comprising a liquid impermeable cover sheet (611) disposed on an upper surface of the article, a backing sheet (612) disposed on a lower surface of the article, and an absorbent structure (600) incorporated between these sheets. , the absorbent structure (600) having, in the longitudinal direction, a middle portion (601) and two opposite end portions (602) and, in the transverse direction, a central portion (603) and two opposite edge portions (604). The absorbent article is distinguished primarily by the fact that the edge portions 604 in the middle portion of the absorbent structure 601, within at least part of the thickness direction, have a first middle pore size, and that the central portion 603 in the middle portion 601 of the absorbent structure has a second middle pore size within at least part of the thickness direction, the first middle pore size being larger than the second middle pore size, and that the article The absorbent pad may be folded along the central longitudinal axis (ii) so that a portion of the article on one side of the axis (ii) extending in the longitudinal direction is carried against a corresponding portion of the article. on the other side of the axis (ii) extending in the longitudinal direction on the upper surface of the article, and the portions (604), which have the largest, first middle pore size, constitute a liquid receiving zone (610) when the article and is in use."artigo absorvente incluindo uma estrutura absorvente". a invenção relaciona-se a um artigo absorvente tal como uma fralda, um protetor para incontinência, uma toalha sanitária ou similar, tendo uma direção transversal, uma direção longitudinal e u
