Objectives: to determine the frequency of malnutrition in students recently admitted to a private medical school in 2018. Materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional and retrospective study which consisted in reviewing the records from students admitted in 2018 to a private medical school in Lima, Peru. Absolute and relative rates were obtained, Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test were used for qualitative variables and U Mann-Whitney’s test or Student’s t test were used for quantitative variables. Significance level was set at 95%. Results: the study population consisted of 263 subjects. More than half of them (53.99%) had malnutrition, which was established as 36.5% overweight persons, 11.03% were obese, and 6.46% were undernourished. The following findings were associated to malnutrition: alcohol consumption (p<0.001), family history of type 2 diabetes (p<0.001), ...

Objectives: to determine the frequency of malnutrition in students recently admitted to a private medical school in 2018. Materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional and retrospective study which consisted in reviewing the records from students admitted in 2018 to a private medical school in Lima, Peru. Absolute and relative rates were obtained, Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test were used for qualitative variables and U Mann-Whitney’s test or Student’s t test were used for quantitative variables. Significance level was set at 95%. Results: the study population consisted of 263 subjects. More than half of them (53.99%) had malnutrition, which was established as 36.5% overweight persons, 11.03% were obese, and 6.46% were undernourished. The following findings were associated to malnutrition: alcohol consumption (p<0.001), family history of type 2 diabetes (p<0.001), ...

Objetivos: Determinar la frecuencia de malnutrición en los alumnos ingresantes a la facultad de medicina humana de una universidad privada en el año 2018. Metodología: Estudio cuantitativo, no experimental, descriptivo, transversal y retrospectivo, mediante el análisis de la ficha de recolección de datos de los 263 alumnos ingresantes en el año 2018. En el análisis inferencial, se calculó Chi-cuadrado o Test exacto de Fisher para las variables cualitativas y Prueba de U de Mann – Whitney, para las cuantitativas. Se utilizó un nivel de significancia al 95% y valor p<0.05. Resultados: La población de estudio estuvo conformada por 263 universitarios. Según el índice de masa corporal, el 36.5% estuvo en sobrepeso, el 11.03% en obesidad y el 6.46% en desnutrición. Se consideró en estado de malnutrición al 53.99% de los ingresantes. En relación al perímetro abdominal, el 27....