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AGUIRRE CHIQUITO, María José; BAQUE ZAMBRANO, Gabriela Stefania; CASTRO JALCA, Jazmin Elena  e  CASTRO JALCA, Alexander Dario. Dietary habits, nutritional quality and serum iron concentrations in school children with and without anemia. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.5, n.13, pp.201-213.  Epub 25-Abr-2022. ISSN 2664-3243.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v5i13.1142.

The initiation of good nutritional eating habits contributes to the development of school children, thus avoiding anemia, which is estimated to have a worldwide impact of 600 million children suffering from this disease according to data recorded by the World Health Organization. This study seeks to demonstrate the dietary habits, nutritional quality and serum iron concentration in students with iron deficiency anemia in the Jipijapa Canton in Ecuador. The methodology used in the analysis of the study was descriptive observational, cross-sectional. For this purpose, a voluntary non-probabilistic sampling was applied, with the participation of 63 schoolchildren from the Canton with previous authorization. Among the results, it was found that in the 63 schoolchildren there was a predominance of daily consumption (76.4%) in eating habits, while in nutritional quality, unhealthy was observed (24 and 37 ME) in certain foods necessary for student consumption in the established ranges, in anemia a result of (10.2%) of schoolchildren with anemia was obtained, while for iron deficiency (11.1%) of the children. It is concluded that bad eating habits are prevalent in schoolchildren, however, there are cases in which schoolchildren show anemia with iron deficiency and schoolchildren without anemia with iron deficiency, which is elementary in the nutritional habits as well as in the nutritional quality.

Palavras-chave : Anemia; School children; Dietary intake; Nutritional quality; Serum iron.

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