Dietary intake evaluation in students of fourth year of medicine

Abstract

Malnutrition, either due to deficit or nutrients excess, constitutes a constantly increasing worldwide problem, being the young college students’ population one of the most vulnerable. Objective: Evaluate the dietary intake from medical students at Pharmacology II / Physiopathology II from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in Valle de Sula (UNAH-VS) in May 2017. Patients and methods: It has been made a crosssectional quantitative descriptive study at the recent month of May 2017 including fourth year medical students. Through random probability sampling was obtained a sample of 65 students. The information was collected through two 24-hour reminder surveys, applied in two different days. This information was processed through the software NutrINCAP and Microsoft Excel. Results: It has been found that the subjects of study had an average energy intake from 3892.88 kcal/day and 2245.16 kcal/day, an average protein intake from 136.06g/day and 82 g/day for men and women, respectively. The cholesterol consumption in men was 490.04 mg/day, meanwhile in women it was from 268.31 mg/day. The calcium intake was of 650.56mg/day and 946.59mg/day, meanwhile iron is 27.32mg/day and 38.63mg/day, for women and men, respectively. Conclusion: Men evaluated during this process had a hypercaloric, hyperproteic diet, with excess cholesterol consumption and calcium and iron deficiency. On the other side, women had a hypocaloric, hyperproteic diet with calcium and iron deficiency.

Keywords

Nutrition assessment, students, medical, energy intake