%0 Journal Article
%T Infecciones respiratorias recurrentes y estado nutricional en ni£¿os de 0 a 6 a£¿os
%A Tamayo P¨¦rez
%A Vilma In¨¦s
%A Esquivel Lauzurique
%A Mercedes
%A Gonz¨¢lez Fern¨¢ndez
%A Ciro
%J Revista Habanera de Ciencias M£¿£¿dicas
%D 2012
%I Ministerio de Salud Publica
%X 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 "¨¢ngel a. aball¨ª" (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.
%K recurrent respiratory infections
%K nutritional state
%K children.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1729-519X2012000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en