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    Evaluación del estado nutricional en adolescentes de 15 a 18 años, que asisten al Colegio Julio María Matovelle, cantón Cuenca, 2010
    (2011) Albán Rivas, Andrés Eduardo; Alvarez Cambi, Marco Antonio; Baculima Neira, Pedro Santiago; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; García Alvear, Jorge Luis
    Background: The lifestyle changes, physical activity food trends and level results comes from the influence of sociocultural have been determinants of variations in the nutritional status of individuals worldwide. Objective: To evaluate nutritional status, physical activity levels and patterns of food intake in adolescents aged 15 to 18 years in schools in the canton Cuenca. Procedure and Methods: We performed a transversal and descriptive, randomly recruited 300 students of the Julio Maria Matovelle High School. The Inclusion criteria were adolescents aged between 15 to 18 years; were excluded adolescents with serious illness, pregnancy, or on a diet. The study included: anthropometric measurements, assessment of physical activity and dietary intake patterns through surveys of adolescents. Results: The study included 300 cases, of which 289 (96.33%) were men and 11 (3.67%) were women, the average age is 16.02 years. With regard to nutritional status, 47,33% had a normal nutritional status, 45% have some degree of risk, overweight or obese. In regard to physical activity makes a 53.33% low activity. Depending on the type of diet we found that 31.0% use a hyper-caloric diet unrelated to the age group. There are significant relationships between sex, high and weight. Conclusions: The investigation reveals that there is no statistically significant relationship between physical activity, diet and age with nutritional state.