FACTORES DE RIESGO DE SÍNDROME METABÓLICO Y ESTADO NUTRICIONAL EN ESCOLARES DE AZOGUES, AÑO LECTIVO 2017-2018.

Abstract

The investigation was to determine risk factors present for metabolic syndrome and its relationship with the nutritional status in schoolchildren in 6 to 10 years of the Catholic Educational Unit particular of the city of Azogues in the period September 2017 - February 2018. A survey was applied to parents on Family and personal history of children; they took anthropometric measurements and blood pressure, biochemical tests were also conducted that were analyzed by means of spectrophotometric method. Results: The 22.7% and 18.2% of children are at risk of overweight and overweight respectively according to BMI/age, according to IC/T overweight and obesity is present in 59.1%; 40.9% of the children have values that are compatible with hypertension, 4.5% of children have a CC≥P90. The 39.75% of children have at least one family member with a ENT, being the most frequent diabetes mellitus. The SM is presented in a 18.18%; 100% of children with overweight and obesity and 61.5% of children normoweighted have hypertriglyceridemia, The HDLc is low in 22.2% of overweight children and in 38.5% of children with normal weight; fasting glucose was not related to the nutritional status.