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Picture of the Nutritional Status of Adolescents, Living Under Different Environmental Conditions of the Western Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Saule Kabibollaevna Bermagambetova, Ainur Nurlybaevna Zinalieva, Tulendy Karimovich Karimov, Aigul Bahitjanovna Nagmetova and Larissa Uikasbaevna Niyazalina

West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov State Medical University, 68, 030019 Kazakhstan, Aktobe, Maresiev Street, 68, 030019, Russia.

ABSTRACT: The deficiencies in nutrition in early childhood and teenage age lead to the farreaching consequences and negatively affect the health condition throughout the human life. The nutritional status is a hygienic criterion of human life quality, and its evaluation allows us to develop the individual programs for the integrated prevention.When studying and analyzing the nutritional status, and determining the nutritional status of adolescents, their physical development should be assessed to determine the adequacy of energy and flexible nutrition side.Such anthropometric indices as height and weight shall be studied, and the body mass index (BMI) is estimated. Purpose of the study was features studying of the Developmental Physiology of the baby’s growing body among the urban and rural population of Aktobe and Mangistau regions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the study it was revealed, that the physical development of boys and girls under the evaluation of anthropometric data in all age groups is average, and corresponds to the age and sex. The body mass index of adolescents of both regions is on average within the normal range (BMI is equal to 18.5-24.9). In all age categories of examined children and in all schools the adolescents, who are overweight and obese, were revealed, at that the number of boys is almost 3 times more than girls. There are more children with the increased body mass index among the urban residents.

KEYWORDS: Physical growth; Body weight index; Nutritional status; Adolescents; Environmentally unfriendly region of residence; Height; Body weight

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Bermagambetova S. K, Zinalieva A. N, Karimov T. K, Nagmetova A. B, Niyazalina L. U. Picture of the Nutritional Status of Adolescents, Living Under Different Environmental Conditions of the Western Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015;12(1)
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