Obesity and associated risk factors in elderly residents in the interior of Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Shirlei Macllaine Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Arianna Oliveira Santana, Oliveira , Alessandra Souza de, Reis, Luana Araújo dos, Reis, Luciana Araújo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/8927
• topic: Aging; Body mass index; Health; Envelhecimento; Índice de massa corporal; Saúde; Geriatria e gerontologia

To evaluate obesity and the risk factors associated with obesity in elderly people living in the interior of Bahia. This is an exploratory, descriptive and analytical research, with a cross-sectional design and quantitative approach. The research instrument consisted of socio-demographic data and health conditions. There was a higher frequency of elderly women (80.0%), aged between 60 and 69 years (50.0%), widowed (40.9%), income of 1 minimum wage (55, 5%) and literate (86.4%). Regarding functional capacity, most elderly people were classified as independent in Basic Activities of Daily Living (83.6%) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (70.9%). With regard to nutritional status, according to the BMI, 50.0% of the elderly people were overweight (> 27 kg / m²). With the application of the chi-square test (χ2) between all categories of BMI and the study variables, there was a statistically significant difference between the category of overweight (> 27 kg / m2) and the study variables: SAH (p=0.043), presence of disease (p=0.019) and female gender (p=0.000). There was a high frequency of overweight and chronic diseases related to overweight in the group of elderly people surveyed, with systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes being the most frequent.