%0 Journal Article
%T Estado nutricional de preescolares asistentes a la Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles de Chile: Evaluaci¨®n de la concordancia entre indicadores antropom¨¦tricos de obesidad y obesidad central
%A Guti¨¦rrez-G¨®mez
%A Yareni
%A Kain
%A Juliana
%A Uauy
%A Ricardo
%A Galv¨¢n
%A Marcos
%A Corval¨¢n
%A Camila
%J Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrici¨®n
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X historically, the anthropometric assessment of nutritional welfare programs has been targeted to assess nutritional deficiencies based on weight-to-age and height-to-age indicators. recently, given the increase on childhood obesity, it has been also recommended the measurement of indicators of obesity (i.e. weight-to-height) and central obesity (i.e. waist circumference). however, the agreement of these indicators in preschool children is unclear. the aims of this study were: 1) assess the nutritional status of children attending the chilean national nursery schools council program (junji); 2) assess the agreement between general and central obesity anthropometric measurements in these children. in 574 girls and 580 boys, 3.0 to 5.9 years old, we measured: weight, height, waist and hip circumference, and five skinfolds. we used the who 2006 growth standards to estimate z-scores. we defined general obesity as whz or baz= 2, and central obesity as waist circumference ¡Ý 90 percentile of nhanes iii. the participants were on average slightly shorter but considerably heavier and obese than the reference populations. prevalence of general obesity was close to 16% with both indicators while prevalence of central obesity reached 15%. there was good agreement among general obesity indicators and central obesity indicators (kappa = 0.6-0.7). in summary, we found a high prevalence of obesity and central obesity among chilean preschool children beneficiaries of a welfare program. at this age, there was a good agreement among general obesity indicators and central obesity indicators. these results suggest that waist circumferences measurements should not be incorporated to the program.
%K nutritional status
%K anthropometry
%K waist
%K obesity
%K central obesity
%K preschool children
%K chile
%K low income children.
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