CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DYNAPENIA IN THE OLDER ADULTS

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Pabline dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: dos Santos, Lucas, Leal Neto, João de Souza, Caires, Sabrina da Silva, Souza, Adriano Almeida, Casotti, Cezar Augusto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ciência e Movimento (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://portalrevistas.ucb.br/index.php/rbcm/article/view/13102
• topic: Envelhecimento; Fraqueza Muscular; Saúde Cardiovascular

The study aimed to identify cardiovascular risk factors associated with dynapenia in the older adults. This is an epidemiological,cross-sectional research conducted with older people from Aiquara-BA. The cardiovascular risk factors evaluated were: gender, age group,ethnicity, level of physical activity, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, body adiposity index, blood glucose level and lipid profile(triglycerides; total cholesterol; High-Density Lipoprotein cholesterol - HDL-c and Low-Density Lipoprotein cholesterol - LDL-c). Thediagnosis of dynapenia was stratified by sex based on the following handgrip strength values: 24.87 kgf (men) and 18.25 kgf (women).Associative analysis was verified with Person's chi-square test. However, for expected frequencies less than five (n < 5), Fisher's exact test wasused. The significance level adopted in all analyses was 5.0% (p ≤ 0.05). A total of 109 older individuals (55.0% women) with a mean age of71.0 ± 7.4 participated in the study. The percentage of hypertensive older adults was 45.0%, smokers or former smokers 65.0%, insufficientlyactive 17.1%, with high waist circumference 46.8%, high waist-to-hip ratio 67.0%, obese 44.0%, with diabetes mellitus 20.4%,hypercholesterolemia 59.3%, with low HDL-c 36.5% and high LDL-c 44.0%. The prevalence of dinapenia was 24.8% (women 25.0% andmen 24.5%). Moreover, a higher prevalence of dynapenia was found among the longevous (50.0%) and among the insufficiently active (55.6%)(p < 0.05). We conclude that, among the older adults residents in Aiquara-BA, the insufficient level of physical activity and advanced age wereassociated with dynapenia.