PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AMONG ADOLESCENTS OF PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS OF MONTEVIDEO
PREVALENCIA DE MALNUTRICIÓN POR EXCESO ENTRE LOS ADOLESCENTES DE LOS LICEOS PRIVADOS DE MONTEVIDEO
PREVALÊNCIA DE MÁ NUTRIÇ ÃO POR EXCESSO ENTRE OS ADOLESCENTES DE COLÉGIOS PARTICULARES DE MONTEVIDÉU
| 2016 | |
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adolescentes nutrição obesidade sobrepeso ensino fundamental a médio. adolescentes nutrición obesidad sobrepeso educación primaria y secundaria. adolescents nutrition obesity overweight education primary and secondary. |
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| Español | |
| Universidad Católica del Uruguay | |
| LIBERI | |
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https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/enfermeriacuidadoshumanizados/article/view/1189
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/3652 |
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| Sumario: | The World Health Organization has identified overweight and obesity as the fifth risk factor for health on a global scale. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in high school from grade 1 to grade 4 of some private schools in Montevideo. The research assessed the nutritional status by measuring weight and height with calibrated instruments. It was found that 63% of the adolescentsare classified as having normal weight, 37% presented malnutrition by excess and 0.4% were severely underweight. Obesity was higher in males, 13.7 % against 4.7 % of the women, a statistically significant difference (p=0.001). There was also a statistically significant association between the degree course and the nutritional status (p=0,003). The population of teenagers of grade 1 presented a prevalence of obesity (16.7%) that duplicates that of grade 4 (8.5%) and is three times larger than that of grade 2 (5.2%) and grade 3 (5.0%). We found a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in private high schools of Montevideo. When the expectation for a well-nourished population is that 82% will present a normal nutritional status (BMI/age between -2 to +1) in the present study only 63% were in this situation. |
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