La autoestima y la imagen corporal juegan un papel muy importante en la actual epidemia de sobrepeso. El objetivo es asociar la autoestima con la autopercepción de la imagen corporal en universitarios. Para ello, se realizó un estudio transversal en el 2014 en estudiantes de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. Se realizaron 1002 encuestas, de las cuales el 52.86% eran mujeres, con una edad promedio de 21 años (17 años-45 años). El 79.9% de los estudiantes presentaron autoestima alta, el 11.6% media y el 8.5% baja. El 27.1% de los participantes se percibió en desnutrición, el 32.96% en un peso adecuado y el 39.96% en sobrepeso u obesidad. Se encontró una correlación negativa entre la autoestima y la percepción corporal (p = 0.008), es decir, entre mayor autoestima, en menor peso se percibían. El tener una autoestima alta es un factor protector para una percepción en obesidad (p = 0.042). La autoestima y la percepción corporal están asociadas.
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Background: Visceral adiposity index (VAI) has been identified as a cardiometabolic risk marker in children and adolescents which reflects abdominal fat distribution. The aim of the present study was to evaluated the predictive capacity of VAI, a body shape index (ABSI), atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), and triglycerides and glucose index (TyG index) compared with classical anthropometric measurements to discriminate metabolic syndrome (MetS). Methods: This retrospective study included 1372 individuals. Anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical measurements were used to screen the prevalence of MetS components and to calculate VAI, ABSI, TyG index, and AIP.
Results:The discriminatory capacity among the variables was assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC). VAI was the variable with the highest AUC with 0.932 CI 95% (0.917-0.948), followed by AIP with 0.914 CI 95% (0.897-0.931), and TyG index with 0.889 CI 95% (0.871-0.908).
Conclusion:VAI is a promising tool to identify MetS in the late adolescence setting. Among the novel adiposity indexes VAI, AIP, TyG index are able to determine MetS presence, while ABSI is not capable.
| INTRODUCTIONMetabolic syndrome (MetS) is a convergence of intercorrelated metabolic risk factors including high blood pressure, hyperglycemia, abdominal obesity, elevated triglyceride (TG) levels, and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). MetS is closely linked with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and promotes cardiovascular disease (CVD) development (Sarrafzadegan et al., 2013). The presence of the MetS increase the risks for CVD 2.88 in men and 2.25 in women. In individuals with MetS, the risk for T2D is up to five times higher compared with
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