Prevalencia de sobrepeso, obesidad y factores asociados en adolescentes hospitalizados en Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso año 2017

Abstract

Background: According to the last records obtained in the opinion poll of National of Health and Nutrition, Ecuador books in 8.6 % of children under five years with excess of weight, while in the ages between 5 and 11 years, get to the 29.9 % and in the case of the teens, to the 26 %. General objective: Determining the prevalence of overweight, obesity and factors once 2017 were correlated in teens hospitalized in the Hospital “Vicente Corral Moscoso” year. Methodology: I study observational, quantitative, analytical of transverse guy, it had total success with 143 teens attended in 2017, in the Hospital “Vicente Corral Moscoso”. SPSS checked case histories, by means of tie of frequencies and percentages. He used him the reason of prevalence and the stadigraph Chi-Square, in order to evaluate the relation with the risk factors. Results: Of the 143 studied teens the 55.2 % have between 10 and 12 years. He predominates the feminine sex, the rural procedence 60 % and the socioeconomic status is essentially Low or Half-Way Low. The prevalence of teens with overweight and obesity belonged to the 16.8 %. The analyzed risk factors do not evidence a statistically significant relation with overweight or obesity. The paternal overweight happened to be the one of bigger incidence. Findings: Overweight or obesity in the population do not have very high levels, a single factor does not separately evidence significant relation with the nutritional state, the conjugation of varied of these risk factors bear overweight and the obesity in these subjects.