Introduction: Despite anthropometric parameters (weight, length and head circumference) used in the nutritional evaluation of newborn can be normal; nevertheless, some newborns delivered at term catalogued like appropiate for gestational age (AGA), suffer from fetal malnutrition (FM) when the compartments are valued greasy and protein through Metcoff’s test. Objective: the incidence of FM in term newborns AGA, using clinical assessment of nutritional status at birth and its qualification according to Metcoff, from December 2011 - January 2012 in Hospital of Sullana. Materials and Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, and mm study was made in the Hospital de Sullana. The nutritional state was evaluated of a sample of 93 newborns delivered at term AGA, alive, eutocic and singleton delivery, without the presence of risk factors that affect the health of the mother, the new...

Introduction: Despite anthropometric parameters (weight, length and head circumference) used in the nutritional evaluation of newborn can be normal; nevertheless, some newborns delivered at term catalogued like appropiate for gestational age (AGA), suffer from fetal malnutrition (FM) when the compartments are valued greasy and protein through Metcoff’s test. Objective: the incidence of FM in term newborns AGA, using clinical assessment of nutritional status at birth and its qualification according to Metcoff, from December 2011 - January 2012 in Hospital of Sullana. Materials and Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, and mm study was made in the Hospital de Sullana. The nutritional state was evaluated of a sample of 93 newborns delivered at term AGA, alive, eutocic and singleton delivery, without the presence of risk factors that affect the health of the mother, the new...