The study of nutritional condition in children of Asad Abad Tabriz

Children’s malnutrition has an important effects on the level of well being in the society and anthropometrical indictors in children represent the ultimate results of nutritional status. In this study nutritional status of 480 children of 6-12 years old (260 boys, 220 girls) has been evaluated base on nutritional stratification indices such as height, age (H/A) and weighty and height (W/H). They divided based on point z in three groups of hypoalimentation, normal children and polyphagia. Determined in three classifications in several classes (slight, middle, sever). Statistical analysis showed that under nutrition in term of (H/A) was 15 percent in both sex, and weight/height for girls was higher than boys (34.58%. vs. 32.6%, respectively). Also over nutrition in term of W/H index for girls was higher than boys (8.41% vs. 6.61%, respectively). However, H/A index was higher in boys.(16.74% vs. 20% respectively). The results of present investigation show that in 40.42% of children based on index of weight to height and 33.23% based on index of height to age are malnutrition. So that the main nutritional problem in this population is oligotrophia.