Abstract

TAMAYO PEREZ, Vilma Inés; ESQUIVEL LAUZURIQUE, Mercedes  and  GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ, Ciro. Recurrent respiratory infections and nutritional state in children 0-6 years old. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.1, pp.37-44. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: The recurrent respiratory infections (RRI) are frequently accompanied by nutritional disorders that affect the growth of the children.Objectives: Describe the nutrition state of the children studied and its relationship with the presence of RRI. Method: It was carried out an observational, descriptive and transverse study in which the behavior of a group of anthropometric indexes (height / age, BMI/age, fat area / age and muscle/age was evaluated in 116 children 0-6 year-old suffering from RRI assisted in the consultation of Immunology of the teaching Hospital "Ángel A. Aballí" (2005 - 2007). Result: This study showed that in this population the upper RRI were more frequent than the lower ones with a higher incidence in the male sex and of those under five years, high values of the anthropometrics index prevailed except in the BMI but there was a greater nutritional affectation in this population than the one reported in a previous study in Havana. Those that presented lower RRI showed deficit in values more frecuently than those that suffered from upper RRI. Conclusions: The studied population had bigger nutritional affectation that the children of the previous study of the province of origin. It was more evident in the low RRI.

Keywords : recurrent respiratory infections; nutritional state; children.

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