Infecciones respiratorias recurrentes y estado nutricional en ni？os de 0 a 6 a？os

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.