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Observational study reveals no significant links between food consumption and anemia in teenage girls, highlighting protein's role in chronic energy deficiency.
This study aims to determine the association between food consumption, chronic energy deficiency status, and anemia in teenage girls. This was an observational analytics study with a cross-sectional approach. The population was 342 female high school students in grades 10 and 11 of Kalisat State High School. As many as 81 respondents were determined using a proportionate random sampling technique. The food consumption data include consumption of energy, protein, iron, and vitamin C. Data were analyzed using either the Chi-Square test or the Fisher-Exact test. The association analysis between anemia and the chronic energy deficiency, energy consumption, protein consumption, zinc consumption, and vitamin C consumption was 1.000, 0.868, 0.855, 0.675, and 0,420, respectively. And the association between the chronic energy deficiency and energy consumption, protein consumption, zinc consumption, and vitamin C consumption was 0.064, 0.011, 0205, and 0.096, respectively. In conclusion, there is no association between chronic energy deficiency, food (energy, protein, iron, vitamin C) consumption, and anemia, and no association between chronic energy deficiency and energy, iron, and vitamin C consumption. The only factor associated with the chronic energy deficiency in teenage girls of Kalisat State High School is protein consumption.
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