Indicadores antropométricos como marcadores de risco para anormalidades metabólicas
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2011
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The purpose of this study was to deter-
mine which anthropometric indicator has the
greatest bearing on the metabolic abnormalities
in participants of a Lifestyle Change Program. It
consisted of an exploratory, transversal and ana-
lytical survey, which assessed the body mass in-
dex (BMI), waist circumference (WC), percent-
age of body fat (%BF) and of muscle mass (%MM)
of 273 adults and elderly subjects (over 40 years of
age). Blood samples after an 8-hour diet were
obtained to assess total cholesterol, high-density
cholesterol, low-density cholesterol, triacylglyc-
erol and glucose. Statistical analyses for differen-
tiation between the groups and determination of
associations were conducted. The level of signifi-
cance was set at p<0.05. When the metabolic ab-
normalities were assessed as a dependent variable
and BMI, WC, %BF, %MM as independent vari-
ables, it was seen that WC was the anthropomet-
ric indicator that showed the closest association
with all metabolic abnormalities (P<0,0001), fol-
lowed by %MM. The conclusion reached was that
WC rather than BMI was the main marker of
anthropometric risk for metabolic abnormalities
frequently related to obesity. Given the same WC
value, overweight and obese individuals had com-
parable health risks to eutrophic individuals.
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Body composition, Body mass index, Obesity, Waist circumference, Composição corporal, Indice de massa corporal, Obesidade, Circunferência da cintura
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MOTA, João Felipe; RINALDI, Ana Elisa Madalena; PEREIRA, Avany Fernandes; ORSATTI, Fábio Lera; BURINI, Roberto Carlos. Indicadores antropométricos como marcadores de risco para anormalidades metabólicas. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, Rio de Janeiro, v. 16, n. 9, p. 3901-3908, 2011.