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- Title
Situación socioeconómica, diagnóstico nutricional antropométrico y dietario en niños y adolescentes de Valencia, Venezuela.
- Authors
Acuña G., Iraima; Solano R., Liseti
- Abstract
Food purchase capacity is related to socioeconomic level, and it influences dietary quality and quantity. Changes on diet may cause alterations of nutritional status. In order to evaluate the association between socioeconomic and anthropometrics indicators to dietary adequacy in children from a poverty area, 257 children and adolescents randomly selected, from Valencia, Venezuela (2004) were assessed. Socioeconomic status was determined (SES, Graffar-Méndez), dietary adequacy (24h recalls, n=97) and anthropometrical indicators (W/A, H/A, W/H, arm circumference, fat and muscular area, tricipital skinfold and BMI) were measured. Statistical Analysis by frequency distribution, Chi2 test and Pearson correlation was performed. Boys, school children; families in poverty (IV and V stratum) and one family/home were highly prevalent. Nutritional diagnosis consisted of: 36.6% of deficit, 54.8% of normality and 8.6% of excess. Mean caloric and protein intake and adequacy were acceptable, but fiber adequacy was excessive. 41.2% of subjects had inadequate energy intake and 45.3% inadequate protein intake. Energy intake was deficient in 58.3% of normal subjects and also in those in excess, and in 46.5% of undernourished children, 52.1% of the undernourished children had excessive adequacy for fiber. There was association between fiber adequacy to energy and protein intake, age; height and muscular area, but not between energy and protein intake to socioeconomic condition. It is concluded that there was an important association between dietary intake and nutritional status but only a weak relation to SES. Evaluation of dietary intake and adequacy is useful to complement anthropometric and socioeconomic information; but care has to be taken for the possibility of under or overestimation of data reported by the interviewed.
- Subjects
VALENCIA (Venezuela); VENEZUELA; SOCIAL status; CHILD nutrition; MALNUTRITION in children; ANTHROPOMETRY; POVERTY
- Publication
Anales Venezolanos de Nutrición, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0798-0752
- Publication type
Article