Factors associated with the concentration of abdominal fat in employees of a public university in Recife

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Camila Karina Brito do
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Martins, Mayhanne Cockles de Oliveira, Burgos , Maria Goretti Pessoa de Araújo, Monteiro, Jailma Santos, Andrade, Leopoldina Augusta Souza Sequeira de, Bezerra, Gleyce Kelly de Araújo, Cabral, Poliana Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/32823
• topic: Anthropometry; Body mass index; Obesity; Abdominal obesity.; Antropometria; Índice de massa corporal; Obesidade; Obesidade abdominal.; Antropometría; Índice de masa corporal; Obesidad; Obesidad abdominal.

Objective: toevaluatethefrequencyandfactorsassociatedwiththeconcentrationof abdominal fat in health workers at a public university. Methods: cross-sectional study carried out with health workers at UFPE, in the city of Recife/PE/Brazil. Demographic (sex and age), socioeconomic (educational level) and lifestyle (physical activity, smoking and drinking) data were collected; anthropometry for the diagnosis of global/abdominal obesity, performed by body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), respectively. Results: there was a predominance of overweight (60.0%), with 20.0% obese, with no statistical difference between the sexes. Abdominal obesity was detected in 56.3% of men and 81.6% of women, with a statistically significant association between abdominal obesity and female sex, age  50 years and BMI in the overweight range. Conclusion: abdominal obesity was high in this group, with a higher prevalence in women. This frequency follows the Brazilian and global trend of this condition.