Retraso del lenguaje en niños asociada a la malnutrición: Revisión sistemática

Abstract

Introduction: From the moment of gestation and the first years of the child's life, nutrition plays a very important role for child development, which is why different investigations have found that there is a marked relationship between nutritional status and better performance. cognitive, where malnutrition Objective: To assess the relationship between malnutrition and delayed language development. Methods: Full-text studies, clinical trials, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trial, observational studies, published from 2018 to 2023 were included. Results: The PRISMA criteria were used to select the articles, which are presented in flowchart 1. Conclusions: As a conclusion of this research, it can be highlighted that children who have malnutrition have a high probability of prevalence of developmental delay, which mainly leads to language delay, for this reason it is extremely important that there is good control for the timely identification and proper handling.