Anemia y estado nutricional en menores de 5 años. Hospital Pablo Jaramillo Crespo, Cuenca-Ecuador

Anemia represents a disease with a high prevalence that is connected to the precarious situations that infants experience.Objectives: to determine the frequency of anemia and establish its relationship with the nutritional status in minors between 6 and 59 months admitted to the “Hospital Pablo Jaramillo Crespo”. Cuenca-Ecuador, 2017.Methodology: it is a retrospective study that established the frequency of anemia in children between 6 and 59 months hospitalized during January to December 2017, determining the link with the nutritional conditions of the patient. The analysis was carried out using the Epi-info program and the association test used was Pearson's Chi-square, admitting a p<0.05 to establish statistical significance.Results: 52.6% of the children were male and 47.4% female, pre-school age children predominating (51.9%). The frequency of anemia was 39.6%, of the children with anemia 6% had moderate to severe malnutrition, existing statistical significance. The children with anemia were female (51.3%) and 23.9% presented malnutrition, while children without this disease 55.2% belonged to the male and 18.6% were malnourished.Conclusion: it was found that anemia has a statistically, significant relationship with malnutrition