PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AMONG ADOLESCENTS OF PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS OF MONTEVIDEO
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adolescents, nutrition, obesity, overweight, education, primary and secondary.Abstract
The World Health Organization has identified overweight and obesity as the fifth risk factor for health on a global scale. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in high school from grade 1 to grade 4 of some private schools in Montevideo. The research assessed the nutritional status by measuring weight and height with calibrated instruments. It was found that 63% of the adolescents
are classified as having normal weight, 37% presented malnutrition by excess and 0.4% were severely underweight. Obesity was higher in males, 13.7 % against 4.7 % of the women, a statistically significant difference (p=0.001). There was also a statistically significant association between the degree course and the nutritional status (p=0,003). The population of teenagers of grade 1 presented a prevalence of obesity (16.7%) that duplicates that of grade 4 (8.5%) and is three times larger than that of grade 2 (5.2%) and grade 3 (5.0%). We found a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in private high schools of Montevideo. When the expectation for a well-nourished population is that 82% will present a normal nutritional status (BMI/age between -2 to +1) in the present study only 63% were in this situation.
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