Associated factors of abdominal obesity in elderly residents in a community
International Journal of Development Research
Associated factors of abdominal obesity in elderly residents in a community
Received 03rd September, 2018; Received in revised form 25th October, 2018; Accepted 19th November, 2018; Published online 31st December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Isnanda Tarciara da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study has as goal to identify the factors linked to abdominal obesity in the elderly people living in a community. This is an epidemiological cross-sectional population-based study, carried out with all subjects with age ≥ 60 years old residents in an interior city of Bahia. It was performed the Poisson regression with p-value<0.05 for inferential analysis. There were studied 179 elderly people, with age between 60 and 91 years old. The prevalence of inadequate Waist-Hip Ratio was 84.4% and it was associated with the female gender (RP 1.29), high triglycerides (RP 1.15) and overweight (RP 1.14). It is concluded that there is great prevalence of abdominal obesity in the elderly people living in the community, showing association with the female sex, increased triglycerides and overweight.
