Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Медицинские науки
ISSN 2500-0780
ПИ №ФС77-57452

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NUTRITION STATUS FOR INTACT OR SUFFERING TUBERCULOSIS CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT IN STAVROPOL AREA

Shulga I.M. 1 Bezrodnova S.M. 1
1 Municipal autonomous institution of healthcare
Nutritional status of healthy and having tuberculosis (TB) children and adolescents was evaluated. A total of 159 children and adolescents aged from 13 to 17 were examined. All patients and control subjects were divided into three groups. The first group (n=31) comprised of TB patients. The second group comprised of “conditionally healthy” children and adolescents having no known chronic diseases, but undernourished (n=32). And the third group consisted of healthy children and adolescents with goon nutritional status and no known chronic diseases (n=30). All the children and adolescents underwent anthropometry. Nutritional status was evaluated based on the anthropometry results with subsequent calculation of Quetelet, or body mass index (BMI). The results show that the nutritional status of most of the TB patients of childhood and adolescent age did not differ significantly from that of their healthy peers. There were more overweight persons in that group, than the undernourished ones. On the other hand, among the “conditionally healthy” children and adolescents the amount of undernourished subjects was higher, than of the overweight ones.