Excesso de peso e fatores associados em mulheres residentes nos municípios da Amazônia Legal, Mato Grosso

• Autor(a) principal: Arruda, Elmari Figueiredo de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/171
• topic: Excesso de peso; Obesidade; Prevalência; Fatores associados; Mulheres; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA; Overweight; Obesity; Prevalence; Factors associated; Women

Introduction – Obesity is a global epidemic, recognized as a major public health problem, and is one of the determining factors for the onset of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases. The overweight is characterized by a positive energy balance, when the intake is greater than energy expenditure, resulting in accumulation of body fat, which leads to health consequences.Objective - To analyze the association between excess weight and demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle and the presence of emotional problems in women living in the municipalities of the Legal Amazon.Method–Research population-based, cross-sectional design, in 790 women aged 20-59 years living in four municipalities in the Amazon region in Mato Grosso. The information was obtained from a research database matrix food and nutrition security of the population residing in the area of influence of the BR163. It was considered overweight women with BMI ≥25 kg / m2. Statistical analyzes were performed using Stata software version 11.0 with sample weight use. The associations were performed by Pearson's chi-square and estimates of prevalence ratios with 95% confidence interval, after held multiple Poisson regression.Results -In 34.65% of women were aged 20 to 29 years, 62.03% of them are brown, 70.50% were married, 49.96% natural south of the country and 60.11% had income family per capita monthly between 0.66 to 2.99 minimum income, 41.75% of women studied for more than nine years, 19.28% of women were heads of households and 17.84% reporting having some emotional problem. In multivariate analysis found that being overweight increased proportionally with age reaching in women aged 50-59 years RP 1.97 (95% CI 1.51 to 2.58), those who lived in High municipalities forest [RP 1.27 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.62)] and Smile [RP 1.29 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.63)], those with education 5-8 years of study [RP 1.34 (95% CI 1.08 to 1.67)], which were householder [RP 1.22 (95% CI 1.02 to 1.47)] and former smokers [RP 1.24 (95 % 1.17-1.52)] had a higher prevalence of overweight.Conclusion - The prevalence of overweight found in women residing in the cities studied, the state of Mato Grosso, was similar to that prevalent in larger cities. Overweight increased proportionally with age and was associated with statistically significant status of women have less time to study, be family man and former smoker