Sobrepeso en el lactante del Area Metropolitana de Monterrey, N.L., Mexico

La etapa Lactante es una alternativa de abordaje en la lucha contra la obesidad. Se ha demostrado que existe una relacion entre el exceso de peso en esta etapa, con las principales problemas de salud publica; con base en lo anterior, es necesario buscar factores modificables en el comportamiento de los encargados del cuidado del infante y del equipo de salud para crear conductas que propicien el adecuado desarrollo del individuo. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la prevalencia del exceso de peso en lactantes del area metropolitana de Monterrey, a partir de usuarios del programa de atencion del nino sano del IMSS, provenientes de seis unidades de medicina familiar. Se estudiaron 400 lactantes a traves de la medicion de peso y talla, para clasificarlos mediante las tablas diagnosticas nutricionales de la NCHS-CDC/OMS. Se obtuvo una prevalencia del exceso de peso de los lactantes estudiados equivalente al 43.23%. Mostrando que el exceso de peso representa un problema de salud publica creciente en Mexico, el cual requiere el replanteamiento de los programas preventivos en este sector demografico, buscando aquellos ninos que estan adquiriendo patrones patologicos de comportamiento en su ingesta alimentaria. Abstract The infant stage is an alternative in boarding the struggle against obesity. There has been demonstrated that a relation exists between overweight in this period with the current issues of public health. Due to this, it is necessary to search for adjustable factors in the carers and health team, in order to create appropriate behaviour that propitiates suiable development of the individual. The objective in this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight in Monterrey’s metropolitan area infants who assist the healthy child program from six primary health care units of the Mexican Institute of Social Security. There were studied 400 children under a year of age, to whom they there was realized measurement of weight and height, qualifying by means of the diagnostic nutritional tables of the NCHS-CDC/OMS. The results of this study show that the prevalence rates of excess body weight in infants under a year old in Monterrey’s Metropolitan area are 43.23%. There is a clear that excess body weight represents a problem of public health in Mexico, which needs the rethinking of the preventive programs in this one population sector, in search of those children that are acquiring pathological bosses of behavior in food ingestion Palabras Clave: Lactante, prevalencia, exceso de peso, sobrepeso, obesidad, ninos menores de un ano.