Estimación del estado nutricional de niños en una comunidad rural / Annual Reports 1991 / Estimation of the nutritional status of children in a rural community

ABSTRACT

The nutritional status of the children in the rural community of Guazu-Cuá, Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, was evaluated within the frame of a project on primary health care. The study was carried out twice (July 1989 and July 1990) in children of both sexs with ages from one month to ten years, using anthropometric parameters and derived indexes such as boby weightage ratio, heightages ratio, and boby weightheight ratio. From the 86 evaluated chlidren, 74.5 percent showed normal values, 11.5 percent display signs of a previous malnutrcicion, 2.5 percent actual malnutricion, and 11.5 pervcent were overweight. It is very interesting to emphasize that the percentages of malnourished and overweight children were similar in the two evaluations