Profile of the body mass index and associated factors in active elderlies

Abstract

The elderlies without partners have 7.753 times the chance of presenting excess weight when compared to those with partners. Having an income higher than a minimum wage represents 6.014 times the chance of being overweight. Not having health problems amounts to 0.015 times the chance of being overweight. In the motorperformance, not presenting limitation of balance represents 6.785 times the possibility of being affected by excess weight.

Fatores de risco dos beneficiários do gerenciamento clínico por telemonitoramento da saúde suplementar: estudo transversal

“…The feminization of the aged population, herein observed, is similar to the findings of other national studies (17) . In fact, in another municipality from Paraná, the presence of aged women, between 60 and 79 years old and healthy, among the chronically-ill patients in primary health care, was also the majority (18) .…”