%0 Journal Article
%T Malnutrici¨®n proteico-energ¨¦tica en ni£¿os menores de 5 a£¿os
%A Alonso Lago
%A Odelkis
%A Gonz¨¢lez Hern¨¢ndez
%A Daris I.
%A Abreu Su¨¢rez
%A Gladys
%J Revista Cubana de Pediatr£¿-a
%D 2007
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X with the objective of finding out the magnitude of protein-energetic malnutrition in harlem (pinar del rio province) and of identifying some risk factors, a descriptive cross-sectional study was performed from january to december, 2004. thirty eight children, who presented weight figures for size and age below 3rd percentile, were studied. a malnutrition index of 18,4% was found; over 1 year-old children were the most affected accounting for 21,12%. mild malnutrition predominated (89,5%), with no difference in sex. it was observed that 71% of the mothers of undernourished children were at risky age at the time of pregnancy. children with risky birthweight prevailed (2 500-3 000g). seventy one percent of children had been exclusively breast-fed for less than 3 months. malnutrition is a health problem in harlem, p¨ªnar del r¨ªo province, with respect to the rest of the country. the detected risk factors were early cessation of breast-feeding, pregnancy at extreme ages of fertility and birthweight from 2 500 to 3 000g. these results allowed designing intervention strategies for this territory in order to improve this indicator.
%K protein-energetic malnutrition
%K undernourishment
%K nutritional assessment.
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