RELACIÓN DE ESTEATOSIS HEPÁTICA NO ALCOHÓLICA CON ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE LA "ESCUELA FÉLIX SARMIENTO NÚÑEZ" , DAULE, 2015

Abstract

Obesity has increased in children and is one of the determining factors of metabolic diseases such as hepatic steatosis nonalcoholic (NASH), in Ecuador there are no statistical data on child NASH because it usually occurs in the adult population. This cross-sectional study, descriptive, non-experimental all 63 students of the rural school "Felix Sarmiento Nuñez", exhibition Sabanilla Canton Duale, who regularly attended classes during the academic year 2015-2016 was performed and legalized through an informed consent signed by the representative of the school. The data were interpreted with the descriptive statistical method with univariate analysis, bivariate and logistic regression techniques through the SPSS v.15 program. the results indicate that 68% of the sample have normal BMI for age, of which 30.2% have mild fatty liver disease whose diagnosis sonographic and biochemical transaminase tests were used, a situation that is influenced by maternal education level which impacts in the food pattern that does not cover the nutritional requirements of children and is predominant in saturated fat from regular consumption of whole egg, pork, chicken, palm oil, butter, pies and coffee milk. These data provided the basis for developing a food educational proposal aimed at the entire population with the participation of teachers.