Estado nutricional y anemia en niños de 10 a 36 meses de edad del Centro Infantil del Buen Vivir Caritas Felices de la ciudad de Loja en el año 2016.

Abstract

Abstract: The present work is a non-experimental, prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study, whose study population was represented by 60 children from 10 to 36 months of age. Anthropometric measures of weight, height and body mass index and indicators of child growth of the World Health Organization were used. For the diagnosis of nutritional status, the Waterlow index of weight / height and height / age was applied to determine the degree of malnutrition. The degree of anemia was determined from the capillary hemoglobin values ​​established by the World Health Organization for children 6 months to 5 years of age. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to establish the correlation between the degree of malnutrition and anemia. Of the 60 children studied, 23.33% were overweight and 21.67% had anemia. Finally, there was no correlation between the degree of acute malnutrition and the degree of anemia, however, a correlation was established between the degree of chronic malnutrition and the degree of anemia.