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Assessment of Nutritional Status of Children in Al Hilla City

机译：希拉市儿童营养状况评估

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The assessment of nutritional status of children is an essential part of monitoring health in developing countries. Early recognition of any nutritional problem is essential because community, family, teachers counseling and treatments intervention are more likely before malnutrition become worse. The present study was conducted to assess the nutritional status among children in the age group of 6-12 years also to evaluate influencing factors associated with nutritional status of the children. The study was a cross-sectional, included 211 children with ages ranging from 6-12 years randomly Household selection, Their height and weight were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated. The study group was classified as underweight, normal weigh, overweight and obese, using age- and sex-specific cut-off points for BMI for determined the nutritional state of the children. The nutritional status of 211 children (Boys 106 and girls 105) , 73 of them were underweight and100 were overweight and obese , the remaining were normal weight, there was a high prevalence of underweight in girls 66% than boys 34% and 73% of them report live with not enough family income and 70%of them had history of working mothers. 80% of obese group are inactiveand 71% spent more time in watching television and time spent with computer, while full breast feeding report to be protect from childhood obesity with prevalence of 17%. This study found that sedentary life & Spending more time on television and Computer be considered as predisposing factor for childhood obesity while full breast in the first six months of life may be associated with reduced risk of obesity. There was also an association between underweight and girls resident in rural areas and working mothers. Keywords: childhood obesity, body mass index
机译：对儿童营养状况的评估是监测发展中国家健康状况的重要组成部分。任何营养问题的早期识别都是必不可少的，因为在营养不良恶化之前，社区，家庭，教师的咨询和治疗干预的可能性更大。本研究旨在评估6-12岁儿童的营养状况，并评估与儿童营养状况相关的影响因素。该研究为横断面研究，包括211名年龄在6-12岁之间的儿童，随机选择家庭，测量他们的身高和体重，并计算体重指数（BMI）。研究组被分为体重不足，体重正常，超重和肥胖，使用年龄和性别特定的BMI临界点来确定儿童的营养状况。 211名儿童（男孩106和女孩105）的营养状况，其中73岁为体重不足，100为超重和肥胖，其余为正常体重，女孩的体重不足患病率较高，男孩为66％，男孩为34％，73％他们报告说自己的家庭收入不足，其中70％的人有打工的历史。 80％的肥胖者不活跃，71％的人花费更多的时间看电视和计算机，而全母乳喂养则可以预防儿童肥胖，其患病率为17％。这项研究发现，久坐的生活和在电视和计算机上花费更多的时间被认为是导致儿童肥胖的诱因，而在生命的头六个月里，充分的乳房可能会降低肥胖的风险。体重过轻与居住在农村地区的女童与正在工作的母亲之间也存在联系。关键词：儿童肥胖，体重指数

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