The increase in the population of older adults and their more significant demand for health care in Paraguay requires a multidimensional evaluation to identify risks or deteriorating conditions. The objective of this research was to evaluate the health and nutrition status of a sample of older adults who attended the Geriatric Hospital of the Social Security for outpa-tient consultation. The research had a cross-sectional descriptive observational design, which included 108 older adults who underwent the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and whose nutritional parameters were evaluated. Their average age was 71 years, with a predominance of females. According to their BMI, 64% were overweight or obese. As for the CGA, 18% presented a nutritional risk, 43% had mild dependence on activities of daily living and 12% on instrumental activities, 18% had a cognitive deficit, 6% had depression, and 30% had social risk. The population was characterized by a high prevalence of overweight and hypertension and a low frequency of risk of malnutrition. The most significant limitations were in the basic activities of daily life and social risk. Being female and being overweight were significantly associated with ba-sic functional limitations. This work was one of the first in the country on am-bulatory older adults, allowing the establishment of a baseline for areas where health is compromised or at risk of decline and the development of preventive strategies and actions to promote healthy aging.
RESUMENIntroducción: La forma más fácil y económica para observar el crecimiento es la antropometría, Para medir el crecimiento se utilizan estándares de referencia que evalúan a la normalidad del crecimiento. Las curvas de crecimiento recomendadas por la OMS hasta antes del 2006 eran las del NCHS y CDC, a partir de abril del 2006 la OMS propuso el uso del nuevo patrón de crecimiento. Objetivo: Medir la concordancia entre las tablas de referencias de crecimiento de la OMS 2007 y del NCHS/CDC 2000 utilizando los indicadores talla para la edad (T/E) e índice de masa corporal para la edad (IMC/E). Materiales y Métodos: Estudio analítico de corte trasverso. Se estudiaron 148 niños de entre 5 y 16 años que asistieron a escuelas de tres comunidades rurales. Las variables analizadas fueron T/E e IMC/E diferenciada por sexo. Se estimó el coeficiente kappa para evaluar la concordancia entre las referencias. Se utilizó programas estadísticos WHO Antro Plus V.1.0.4, y con EpiInfo v3.5.1 2008. Resultados: La concordancia más alta se encontró entre las referencias de la OMS 2007 y el CDC 2000 con el indicador T/E en la niñas con κ=0,882 y en los niños κ=0,760; con el indicador IMC/E el coeficiente Kappa más alto se encontró en la población de niños (κ=0,733) y en las niñas (κ=0,452). Conclusiones: Se obtuvo una concordancia buena entre ambas tablas de referencias para el indicador T/E. Existen concordancia moderada con el indicador IMC/E entre las To measure the concordance Objective: between the 2007 WHO growth reference tables and those of the 2000 NCHS / CDC using the height-for-age (T / E) and body-mass-index-for-age (BMI / E) indicators. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional analytical study. We studied 148 children between 5 and 16 years of age who attended schools in three rural communities. The variables analyzed were T / E and BMI / E, differentiated by sex. The kappa coefficient was estimated in order to evaluate the concordance between the references. The WHO Antro Plus V. There is good Conclusions: concordance between both reference tables for the T / E indicator. There is moderate agreement with the IMC / E
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