Anemia and nutritional status in children under 5 years of age. “Hospital Pablo Jaramillo Crespo”, Cuenca-Ecuador

Authors

  • Willie Jack Blacio Vidal Médico. Especialista en Pediatría. Hospital Humanitario Pablo Jaramillo. Unidad de Pediatría. Cuenca – Azuay – Ecuador. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8494-9429

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18537/RFCM.38.03.05

Keywords:

child nutrition disorders, infant nutrition disorders, nutritional anemias, overweight, obesity

Abstract

Anemia represents a disease with a high prevalence that is connected to the precarious situations that infants experience.

Objectives: to determine the frequency of anemia and establish its relationship with the nutritional status in minors between 6 and 59 months admitted to the “Hospital Pablo Jaramillo Crespo”. Cuenca-Ecuador, 2017.

Methodology: it is a retrospective study that established the frequency of anemia in children between 6 and 59 months hospitalized during January to December 2017, determining the link with the nutritional conditions of the patient. The analysis was carried out using the Epi-info program and the association test used was Pearson's Chi-square, admitting a p<0.05 to establish statistical significance.

Results: 52.6% of the children were male and 47.4% female, pre-school age children predominating (51.9%). The frequency of anemia was 39.6%, of the children with anemia 6% had moderate to severe malnutrition, existing statistical significance. The children with anemia were female (51.3%) and 23.9% presented malnutrition, while children without this disease 55.2% belonged to the male and 18.6% were malnourished.

Conclusion: it was found that anemia has a statistically, significant relationship with malnutrition

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Published

2021-04-06

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 3 (2020): Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Cuenca

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