Resumen

CAMARGO COLQUE, Alicia et al. RISK FACTORS RELATED TO THE PREVALENCE OF ANEMIA IN CHILDREN AND GIRLS FROM 6 TO 23 MONTHS AGE. MUNICIPALITY PADILLA. 2016. Arch.Boliv.Med. [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.94, pp. 42-50. ISSN 0004-0525.

The importance of this study lies in the high global prevalence of anemia that mainly affects children under two years, not having done previous studies that allow us to know the reality in the municipality of Padilla. Objective: To determine the relationship between micronutrient intake and the prevalence of anemia in children aged 6 to 23 months old in the municipality of Padilla in the months of April to June 2016. Methods: A descriptive, transversal and observational study by sampling blood to 113 children (study sample) of 6 to 23 months old in the municipality of Padilla and the corresponding survey filling the mother or guardian the child. Results: A study of the relationship between consumption of sparklers and prevalence of anemia in children of 6 to 23 months where it was found that 100% of the sample 66.4% have no anemia is made, 23.9% have anemia mild and 9.7% have moderate anemia, also it was obtained that there is a statistically significant association between children whose mothers do a poor preparation Sparky, among which had a household income that sometimes did not have enough, those whose mothers do Sparky poor preparation and those who have a disease with anemia. Conclusions: We showed that the sample had the highest malnutrition prevalence of anemia with 80%, this variable has a statistically significant relationship, in the same form the children who had a household income that sometimes did not have enough have the highest prevalence of anemia with 100% it was found that those children whose mothers do a poor preparation of Chispitas have the highest prevalence of anemia with 63.63%. In the population participating in the study found that those children who have a pathology (diarrhea, vomiting or pathologies not allow you feed) have the highest prevalence of anemia with 57.14%.

Palabras llave : Anemia; Hemoglobin; Iron; Nutritional Chispitas.