Valoración del estado nutricional y su relación con la morbilidad de pacientes entre 5 a 9 de edad, años internados en el Hospital General “Docente de Calderón”.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the nutritional status and relate it to hospital morbidity in patients between 5 and 9 years old hospitalized at the General Hospital "Docente de Calderón" in 2018. It was of observational type and design, non-experimental of cross-sectional and correlational scope in a population of 274 children, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. General data (age, sex) and anthropometric indicators (weight//age, height//age, BMI/age), morbidities (infectious, digestive, respiratory, skin and fanera, neurological, traumatological and other morbidities) were obtained. Bivariate analysis of anthropometric indicators and morbidity at hospital admission were performed and the data was analyzed in SPSS 23 statistical software. The results found were: male sex 52.2% and female 47.8%; 92% of the population had normal nutritional status, children aged 5 years registered the highest hospital admissions with 25.4%, 3.3% were wasted and severely wasted, 4.7% were underweight and severely underweight and 5.1% were overweight and obese, 100% of patients aged 8-9 years had normal nutritional status; respiratory morbidities preponderate with 86 cases, followed by digestive pathologies with 49 and 48 traumatic pathologies. When associating morbidities at hospital admission and weight/age, height/age BMI/age there is no statistically significant relationship (P= 0.106), probably because the anthropometric data, morbidities at hospital admission were taken at a single determined time. It is recommended in new studies to collect data at admission, during and at hospital discharge.