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Profile of nutritional status of children and adolescents from bogota, Colombia the fuprecol study: 3717 Board #156 June 4, 800 AM - 930 AM
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Benavides Rodríguez, Lorena
Palacios-López, Adalberto
Ojeda-Pardo, Monica Liliana
Peña, Jhonatan C.
Correa Bautista, Jorge Enrique
Ramírez-Vélez, Robinson
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2016-05
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American College of Sports Medicine
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PURPOSE: This study aimed to analize the nutritional status among Colombian children and adolescents and to determine the relationship between the nutritional status according to the body mass index (BMI) and the waist circumference (WC). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 6,383 children and adolescents with age of 9 to 17.9 years old from Bogota, Colombia. Participants completed the “Krece Plus” questionnaire validated by the “enKid study” as an indicator of the nutritional level with the following categories: high (test ? 9), medium (test 6-8) and low (test ? 5). Other measures were: weight, height, WC and BMI as markers of the nutritional status. RESULTS: Overall, 57.9% of the participants were girls (mean age 12.7±2.3 years old). The nutritional status was low without large differences by sex and decreasing by age. In all categories of BMI, over 50% of boys and girls follow lower-quality diet, shown progressively worse with advancing age. In both sexes, trends were observed between low nutritional level with the development of overweight. Also, WC was associated with a lower score in the “Krece Plus” in both sexes.
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Waist circumference , Medical and Health Sciences , Medical Physiology , Public Health and Health Services
