BACKGROUND: Uruguay is at an advanced stage of the epidemiologic transition; like other Latin American countries, it bears a nutritional double burden composed of undernutrition and overweight or @entity28 . OBJECTIVES: The aim was to estimate whether a double burden of nutritional problems exists in Uruguay and to identify if governmental programs and policies for nutrition take this double burden into account. DESIGN: Existing studies were reviewed, and other data were processed specifically for the purpose of this article. Several data sources were used to include a broad, comprehensive population range. RESULTS: The prevalence of stunting in @entity1 aged <2 y is 10.9%. There is a high frequency of @entity28 , which increases with age (9.5% in @entity1 <2 y old, 18.8% in those aged 6 y, 20.4% in those aged 11 y, 26.6% in those aged 13-15 y, and 35.3% in adults). In addition, 13.8% of @entity1 start pregnancy underweight and the rate of @entity28 increases during pregnancy from 36.7% at the beginning to 46.5% at the end. @entity417 is very frequent in the selected population we examined, as follows: 31% of @entity1 <2 y old and 20.9% of pregnant @entity1 in their third trimester. An @entity28 mother with a stunted @entity1 are present in 6.3% of households; 1.9% of stunted @entity1 are @entity28 at age 6 y and 3.1% are @entity28 at the age of 11. Multiple logistic analysis applied to @entity1 <2 y showed an association between stunting and @entity28 (OR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.2, 3.6). CONCLUSIONS: The data suggest that there is a nutritional double burden in Uruguay. This nutritional burden is similar to that of other countries in the region. This important public issue should be tackled, and it should be addressed in early infancy.

Double burden of undernutrition and XXXX in Uruguay.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'children', 'child'] @entity417 :: ('MESH:D000740', 'Disease') :: ['Anemia'] @entity28 :: ('MESH:D009765', 'Disease') :: ['obese', 'obesity']
@entity28 :: (MESH:D009765,Disease) :: ['obesity']
