Abstract

QUESADA MOLINA, Dioneski et al. Nutritional anthropometry in children from one to six year old mal nourished by excess. AMC [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.1, pp. 818-830. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: obesity is one of the commonest chronic disorders in childhood, with a prevalence that increases rapidly and continuously. Objective: to describe some of the anthropometric features in children from one to six year old who present malnourishment by excess. Methods: an observational, descriptive and transversal study was conducted in the Human Anatomy Department at the School of Medicine in Camaguey from March 2015 to May 2016. The universe was composed of 482 children who belong to the nurseries in Vertientes municipality. The sample was 101 children who are malnourished by excess. The variables studied were: age, weight, height, BMI, brachial perimeter, tricipital, bicipital, subscapular and suprailiac skinfolds. Statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS program. Anthropometric technique was performed and nutritional tables were used by physicians at primary health care nowadays to evaluate the nutritional condition. Results: predominance of obesity and overweight with a remarkable incidence for all groups of age, where the greater incidence was for males with the biggest percentages. Conclusions: significant figures in weight and BMI were found, with more impact in obese male than in females. For the last ones the frequency was greater in all the skin folds. There were significant differences in terms of weight and height between the three groups of age, meanwhile the brachial perimeter was different between extreme groups of age and between the one to two year age group with three to four year age group.

Keywords : BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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