Prevalência de obesidade e fatores associados em idosos usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde de Goiânia-GO

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Ano de defesa: 2011
Autor(a) principal: VIEIRA, Liana Lima lattes
Orientador(a): SILVEIRA, Erika Aparecida da lattes
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde
Departamento: Ciências da Saúde - Medicina
País: BR
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Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1726
Resumo: Obesity is a chronic disease and epidemic, and the elderly, little is known about its prevalence and associated factors. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity and associated factors in elderly verify. It is cross-sectional study with multistage sampling, with the elderly (&#8805; 60 years) who attended the 12 months preceding the research network of primary health / SUS, Goiânia-GO. After training, standardization of interviewers and evaluators and pilot study was initiated to collect data. We applied a questionnaire containing demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, food consumption and health. Was collected anthropometric measurements: weight, height and waist circumference. Obesity was defined by body mass index (BMI> 27 kg/m²) and abdominal obesity by WC &#8805; 102 cm for men and &#8805; 88cm for women. We conducted hierarchical multiple Poisson regression with a significance level of 5%. The prevalence of obesity as measured by BMI, was 49.0% and 51.1% in women and 45.1% in men (p= 0.254). Obesity was associated with age at ages 60 and 69 (PR= 1.87) and 70 to 79 (PR= 1.87), diabetes (PR= 1.40), myocardial infarction (AMI) (PR= 1.60) and musculoskeletal disorders (PR= 1.25), inadequate consumption of whole grains (PR = 1.70) and adequate fruit (PR= 1.28). The prevalence of abdominal obesity was 65.5% in women and 34.8% in men (p<0.001). The association analysis was performed separately by sex. Among men was associated with: age 70 to 74 years (PR= 2.00), respiratory disease (PR= 2.32) and measured hypertension (PR= 1.93). In women remained associated only with diabetes (PR= 1.32). Conclusion: The high prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity requires an effective program of prevention and control among older adults in primary health care/SUS. The factors associated with obesity and abdominal obesity are relacioanados mainly the presence of other illnesses and eating habits.