Caracterización antropométrica y determinación de masa muscular y masa grasa en pacientes pediátricos con Leucemia Linfoblástica Aguda que reciben tratamiento en SOLCA en la ciudad de Guayaquil en el periodo de octubre 2017 a febrero 2018.

Abstract

More often cancer patients are affected by their nutritional status, due to several factors: genetic, environmental, type of treatment, side effects, among others. It is important to note that when assessing the nutritional status of children, it must be very detailed. On several occasions the BMI has been used as the only indicator of nutritional status, however, it is essential to obtain a more accurate result of this condition; Therefore, in order to evaluate lean mass and fat mass, the composition of the arm was used, as it is an economical, minimally invasive, non-painful and nonstress producing technique, being a great help in this type of pathology. The research that was carried out was non-experimental, observational, with a quantitative, crosssectional approach and with a descriptive modality, where a sample of 100 patients between 2 and 18 years with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) who had been newly diagnosed or receiving treatment at SOLCA-Guayaquil. Although the majority of patients had a BMI according to their age, their lean mass was reduced while their fat mass was in excess; located at the two ends of the ranges established respectively. Concluding that, the body mass index is not an indicator of well-being in relation to body composition, since the diagnosis of BMI/Age wasn´t related in most cases to the composition (lean mass and fat mass).