Prevalencia de anemia en niños menores de cinco años atendidos en el área de pediatría del Hospital General Guasmo Sur, periodo enero – junio 2017.

Abstract

Currently in Ecuador, nutritional diseases and pediatrics are among the main causes of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 at the regional and national levels, taking into account the latest ENASUT survey, 70% of children under 5 were shown years have a high incidence of malnutrition and anemia as the main underlying diagnosis. The object presented by the current study is to measure the prevalence of anemia in children under five years of age treated in the pediatric area of the Guasmo Sur General Hospital, in the period January- June 2017. A descriptive, observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out in which the patients who were treated in the health facility described above were studied. We analyzed 309 hospital records obtained from the census and file area of the aforementioned hospital, where it was shown that of the total of the studied subjects, 124 patients have an average age of 3 years, which corresponds (40.12%) and the most common diagnosis presented in the study population, according to the diagnosis categorized by the 10th, was iron deficiency anemia, unspecified that involved 56.63%, bearing in mind that there are others such as the socioeconomic status expressed with 33.33% related to people of typical middle level 55.25% of the studied population professes to practice the Christian religion. In relation to the BMI (body mass index), it was observed that 40.12% of the population showed a normal BMI.