Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

EVALUATION OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF NAMASUDRA CHILDREN OF RURAL WEST BENGAL

B. P. Urade, S. K. Mallick

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 A cross sectional study on 1080 school going Namasudra boys aged 6 to 17 years was conducted in 24 Parganas (N) district of West Bengal. From body mass index (BMI) different grades of chronic energy deficiency (CED) were assessed. Weight deficit, height deficit, Korperfulle index (KI), Pelidisi index (PI), MUAC, UAMA, UAFA and % Body fat were computed from various body dimensions. The mean BMI ranges from 10.39 to 30.11 KgM–2 from lower to higher ages. Significantly high magnitude of CED was noticed wherein 83.05 % of the children suffered from malnutrition out of which more than 80 % of children of lower ages (6 – 10 years) had low BMI. There has been an increased trend in BMI from lower to higher age groups. MUAC classification showed that 30.93 % of children suffered from malnutrition. About 47.64 % of children suffered from weight deficit while 24.87 % failed to attend optimum height to those particular ages. Korperfulle index portrays that 62.92 % suffered from malnutrition to very mild undernutrition. Based on Pelidisi index about 82.04 % of children suffered from low state of malnutrition to mild malnutrition. Mean values of UAMA increased steadily from 6 to 14 years but a reverse trend has been observed from 15 to 17 years. The mean values of UAFA and % Body fat increased gradually from lower to higher ages. The frequency of all indices suggests that the Namasudra children were lean and thin leading to poor health and high magnitude of malnutrition.

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B. P. Urade, S. K. Mallick, EVALUATION OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF NAMASUDRA CHILDREN OF RURAL WEST BENGAL, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-3 | MARCH‾2017

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