OBESIDAD INFANTIL, NUEVO RETO MUNDIAL DE MALNUTRICIÓN EN LA ACTUALIDAD

Background: The childhood obesity is a serious public health problem that over time has acquired importance because years ago the concept of fatness was synonym of beauty. Obesity is a chronic, complex and mulifactorial disease. It begins in childhood and can be caused  started in the childhood caused by genetical and environmental interaction. It is the main  risk factor to different chronic pathologies. Objective: Increase knowledge by means of the identification, evaluation and analysis of the causes, risk factors, comorbidities and appropiate medical assessment. Methods: The present article is an analytical study product of bibliographical research of databases like Pubmed, Ovid, Rima, UpToDate and Clinical Key. Besides a local patient sample was collected with the purpose to get  own statistics. Results: With the current research we proved worldwide prevalence increase of this disease associated to other comorbidities. Obese chidren without treatment will keep this condition until  adulthood getting prematurely cardiovascular diseases. Conclusion: Childhood obesity is the 21st century worlwide epidemic with  no  social, gender or  cultural exclusion.  Therefore it is important  to implement a healthy lifestyle from the  nuclear family and schools supported by the communication  media and governmental authorities. The collected local sample showed that our population is not outside of to this global problematic.