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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• da Costa Pimenta, Wiviane
• Santos Brant Rocha, Josiane
• Prates Caldeira, Antônio
• Araújo Veloso Popoff, Daniela
• Maia Santos, Viviane
• Murça de Souza, Joyce Elen
• Marques, Maria Suzana
• Piana Santos Lima de Oliveira, Fernanda
• Rodrigues Caldeira, Daniela Marcia
• Souza Guerra Júnior, Geraldo Edson
• Ferreira Freitas, Ronilson
• Lopes Popoff, Yaroslav Wladmir
• Veloso Rabelo, Gustavo
• Rossi Barbosa-Medeiros, Mirna
• Rosa Rossi-Barbosa, Luiza Augusta
• Spradley, Frank T
• Spradley, Frank T.

Titel

Abdominal obesity and association with sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical data in climacteric women assisted in primary care

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2020-08, Vol.15 (8), p.e0237336-e0237336

Ort / Verlag

San Francisco: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study aims to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with abdominal obesity in climacteric women assisted at Family Health Strategy units of the city of Montes Claros, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is a cross-sectional analytical study. The women were selected by probabilistic sampling from August 2014 to August 2015. A questionnaire containing information referring to sociodemographic and economic characteristics, behavioral characteristics and clinical data was used. To estimate abdominal obesity, the measure of circumference [greater than or equal to] 88 cm was considered. To analyze the association between abdominal obesity and the independent variables, a bivariate analysis was performed by means of Pearson's chi-square test (p[less than or equal to]0.25). Subsequently, a multiple Poisson regression analysis with robust variance was performed, through which prevalence ratios with level of significance of 5% (p0.05) were obtained. A total of 805 women were evaluated, aged 40 to 65 years, and the prevalence of women with abdominal obesity was 62.4%. The mean and median of abdominal circumference were 93.0 cm. The associated variables were being sedentary (PR = 1.44) or irregularly active (PR = 1.39), presenting altered total cholesterol (PR = 1.21), and being hypertensive (PR = 1.31). The abdominal obesity in climacteric women was associated with physical inactivity, total cholesterol and arterial hypertension. The measurement of abdominal circumference must be valued and adopted in the routine of professionals who work in Primary Care.