Estado nutricional de un grupo de niños menores de cinco años, con malaria, en un distrito de Timor Leste

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Denis Monzón Vega¹  Anagalys Ortega Alvelay⁴  Sol Esther García Morales⁵  Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola⁶  Mabel Vega Galindo⁸ 

[1] . Cienfuegos.;. Pinar del Río.;Abel Santamaría Cuadrado"Area II Policlinic. Cienfuegos.;Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima"General University Hospital "Provincial Centre of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology. Cienfuegos.;Provincial Hospital "University of Medical Sciences. Cienfuegos.

关键词: Timor Leste;    niño;    estado nutricional;    trastornos de la nutrición del niño;    prevalencia;    malaria;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Centro Provincial de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas de Cinfuegos

【 摘 要 】

Background:Malaria is a health problem in underdeveloped countries. The child population is particularly vulnerable. Objective:to determine the nutritional status of children under five suffering from malaria who attended a clinic in Timor Leste. Method:a descriptive, correlational study was conducted. The sample consisted of 435 children under five years old, diagnosed with malaria, who attended consultation from June 2008 to July 2009. Nutritional status was evaluated. A medical history demographic, socioeconomic and Plasmodium type data was obtained. Results:254 children (58.4%) were in the group from 2 to 4 years old. Most children (415, 95.4%) had no toilet or piped water in their homes. The average number of people living in the house is 8.3; 5.6 per room. Females were predominant with 50.3%, as well as rural children 402 (92.4%). Most children (84.6%) are undernourished. Statistical relationship was found between nutritional status and age (X2 = 7.44, df = 1, p = 0.01) and nutritional status and sex (X2 = 14.37, df = 1, p = 0, 01). A higher frequency of moderate malnutrition was observed in children with malaria (41; 61.2%). Plasmodium vivax was highly frequent, being present in 299 children (68.7%). Conclusion:children from 0 to 1 year of age are 2 to 4 times more likely to experience malnutrition. Females are between 2 and 5 times more likely to be undernourished than other children with malaria.

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