La malnutrición en menores de edad y en grupos de riesgo en pacientes del MSP del cantón El Empalme.

Abstract

The study shown below was prepared on patient care information from the Health centers of the Ministry of Public Health in El Empalme, in the year of 2019 in the Province of Guayas. Malnutrition encompasses several forms of malnutrition (wasting, growth retardation and underweight), vitamin or mineral imbalances, overweight, obesity, and noncommunicable food-related diseases. In the present investigation, it was proposed to determine malnutrition in minors and their e present study was crosssectional, quantitative, observational and retrospective, since the variables to be studied were manipulated. It had a quantitative approach because the data was obtained numerically for the analysis of the data with a sample of 8,883 patients. The results obtained showed that patients with short stature represent (76%), it is worth noting that children under 2 years of age have a high prevalence and that there are patients with normal weight, but with low height for age being the (90.3% with a p value (0.001)). In conclusion, it was determined that children under 2 years 3 out of 4 suffer from short stature, it is one of the most frequent characteristics in all age ranges.