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Estado nutricional de ni?os en colegios privados y en zonas suburbanas de los Municipios Baruta y el Hatillo de CaracasKeywords: children, anthropometric indicators, weight-height, height-age, weight-age. Abstract: the anthropometric indicators are useful to value the state of health and nutrition of children, allowing to measure in indirect way the quality of life of a population. prevalences of anthropometric nutritional state of children from private schools of caracas and from suburban zones of baruta and the hatillo were analyzed. 1009 children were evaluated (640 from private schools and 369 children from suburban zones). age and sex were considered and height and weight were measured. traditional anthropometric indicators were constructed: weightheight (wh), height-age (ha) and weight-age (wa). they were classified into three categories: under average (
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