Factores de riesgo relacionados con obesidad en niños de 5 a 9 Años de edad en cinco consultorios, Centro de Salud Guasmo Norte. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century; it constitutes a risk factor for chronic noncommunicable diseases, being the main cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Materials and Methods: Observational, transversal, quantitative research with a non-experimental design, whose processing was to collect information through a survey, considering the following risk factors, sociodemographic characteristics, nutritional assessment, family history of obesity, and analyzed through the program SPSS statistic in its version 22. Results: In relation to sociodemographic characteristics, 46.15% were found in males and 53.85% females, age group 7 years (29.91%), ethnic group as mestizos (81.18%), nutritional status of overweight with 16.24% and with almost equal importance the obese with 12.82%; risk factors such as the second level of parents with one (92.04%), the type of inadequate diet with 79.49%. Th ere is a p = 0.002 significance between the nutritional status and the socioeconomic level of the eating habits with a p = 0.014 to the study population. Conclusion: the identification of risk factors has a positive influence to restrict and prevent morbidity and mortality in the future.