[Evaluation of the nutritional status of children seen at the ONI of Guadalajara].
The nutritional status of 701 subjects from 6 to 36 months of age was evaluated. They were living in the poorest neighborhoods of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara City. We looked for the association between diet, social, economic and family variables with anthropometric nutritional indicators. Some variables were associated with the nutritional indicators weight for age and arm circumference. Age (P less than 0.05), literacy of the mother (P = 0.01), episodes of diarrhea in the last 12 months (P less than 0.001), number of children in the family (P less than 0.001) and income for feeding per capita as a percentage of the minimum salary (P = 0.02), were those factors with a strong relationship to the nutritional indicator weight for age. A score of nutritional risk for children under 36 months of age is proposed, which could be useful for detecting those with the need for a food supplement program in marginal areas of Guadalajara.
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D001835:Body Weight; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011203:Poverty
Evaluación del estado de nutrición de niños que acuden al ONI de Guadalajara.