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Acta Médica del Centro
On-line version ISSN 2709-7927
Abstract
SUAREZ GONZALEZ, Juan Antonio and GUTIERREZ MACHADO, Mario. Overweight, obesity and cardiometabolic risk in middle-aged women. Acta méd centro [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.1, pp. 138-144. Epub Mar 31, 2023. ISSN 2709-7927.
Introduction:
obesity is defined as the presence of an excessive quantity of corporal fat.
Objective:
to characterize middle-aged women according to nutritional assessment and cardiometabolic risk factors.
Methods:
descriptive, retrospective study in 180 middle-aged women from Santa Clara City from 2018 to 2021. Statistical analysis was performed in two stages: descriptive analysis (mean, median, and standard deviation) and inferential analysis (Chi-square [qualitative]).
Results:
overweight and obesity predominate, 43.89% have a body mass index corresponding to the overweight category and when classifying obesity 31.67% have class I obesity. As the body mass index increases, the frequency of risk factors increases: hypertension, smoking and ischemic heart disease. All the patients with overweight and obesity had an abdominal waist greater than 88 centimeters.
Conclusions:
Cardiometabolic risk markers were found in middle-aged women with overweight and obesity.
Keywords : middle age; climacteric; cardiometabolic risk.