title: [Assessment of nutritional risk among in-school adolescents from Cantabria].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse nutritional risk, by age and sex, among primary and secondary education adolescents from Cantabria.
  
  
  METHODS
  a cross-sectional study was carried out, analysing a sample of 1101 adolescents: 568 (51.6%) were men and 533 (48.4%) were women, aged 12 to 17, attending 16 different primary and secondary education centres in Cantabria, by means of a Krece Plus questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A high percentage of adolescents with a high nutritional risk (35%) can be observed. Men show a high nutritional risk slightly higher than women (37.8% male vs 32.1% female). Moreover, the high nutritional risk experiences a notable increase as young people get older. Significant statistical differences can be seen both in male and female groups, and as a global group. In all three cases, the nutritional risk distribution in the youngest group is very similar (35.2-35.8% in male, 27.9-29.7% in female, 31.7-32.7% in the global group); whereas in elder adolescents, those values are practically doubled (57.1% in male, 69.0% in female, y 62.2% in the global group).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results are alarming mainly given the high percentage of adolescents with a high nutritional risk. Men and older adolescents are the groups in which high nutritional risk is more evident.
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander. Dpto. Ciencias Médicas y Quirúrgicas. Área de Pediatría. Universidad de Cantabria.. derufinorivas@unican.es.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: De-Rufino Rivas
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Antolín Guerra
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Casuso Ruiz
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mico Diaz
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Ciencias Médicas y Quirúrgicas. Área de Pediatría. Universidad de Cantabria..
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Amigo Lanza
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Fisiología y Farmacología. Universidad de Cantabria..
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Noriega Borge
authors.affiliation: Farmacéutica. Grupo de Investigación Atención Farmacéutica. Universidad de Granada. España..
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santamaría Pablos
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sobaler Castañeda
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jaen Canser
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carrasco Martinez
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Salcines Medrano
authors.affiliation: Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander..
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rivero Benito
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Ciencias Médicas y Quirúrgicas. Área de Pediatría. Universidad de Cantabria..
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Redondo Figuero
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Evaluación del riesgo nutricional de los adolescentes escolarizados en Cantabria.