تعیین شیوع سوء تغذیه پروتئین انرژی در کودکان زیر ۵ سال جامعه شهری وروستایی استان گیلان

ABSTRACT The term of protein-energy malnutrition refers to disorders that mainly manifest due to nuitritional deficiency in body .Lack of sufficient caloric sources and foods containing essential amino acids can provide the background for these disorders.Because of special nutritional needs for growth , children are significantly exposed to involvement with this disease. Thus,attention to them has special importance. It is clear that identification of nutritional status of children is the most important step in planning for the best methods of providing services. Anthropometric assessment is one of the appropriate methods for sectional evaluation. Therefore research project to determine the prevalence of protein - energy malnutrition among children under 5 in urban and rural areas of Guilan Province was implemented. Accordingly, height and weight of 3478 children with regard to the standards of age were measured. Subsequently various degrees of malnutrition were determined by McLarence formula. Based on obtained results about 22.4 percent of children had various degrees of protein-energy malnutrition .However the majority of these children suffered from mild to moderate degrees of the disease but lack of sufficient attention to them could deteriorate their present nutritional status.