Tendência temporal dos indicadores de excesso de peso em adultos nas capitais brasileiras, 2006-2013

Malta, Déborah Carvalho; Santos, Maria Aline Siqueira; Andrade, Silvânia Suely Caribé de Araújo; Oliveira, Taís Porto; Stopa, Sheila Rizzato; Oliveira, Max Moura de; Jaime, Patrícia Constante

doi:10.1590/1413-81232015214.12292015

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“…It is already well documented in the literature worldwide that gender and age are risk factors for overweight, regardless of the anthropometric marker used 2,24 . These findings agree with those observed in this study, in which a tendency of increase in the median values of WHR is observed with increasing age, with significant differences in function of gender.…”

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“…By dividing the body weight (kg) by the height (m) squared (P/A 2 ), BMI was calculated, whose classification was based on the standard proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) 1 . According to Molarius et al 15 , the association of BMI measurement with WC offers a combination for health risk assessment, in addition to decreasing the limitations of the isolated use of each of the measurements.…”

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“…A partir da divisão do peso corporal (kg) pela altura (m) elevada ao quadrado (P/A 2 ), foi calculado o IMC, cuja classificação foi realizada com base na referência proposta pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) 1 . Segundo Molarius et al 15 a associação da medida do IMC com a CC oferece uma forma combinada de avaliação de risco à saúde, além de diminuir as limitações de cada uma das medidas de forma isolada.…”

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“…Obesity and, more recently, overweight have been recognized as major public health problems in many countries 1 , including Brazil 2 , and several attempts have been made to identify the best anthropometric predictor 3 for several non-communicable diseases and complications in different populations and age groups. For overweight diagnosis, several techniques have been proposed to accurately estimate the total amount of body fat, as well as its distribution 4 .…”

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“…A obesidade e, mais recentemente, o sobrepeso têm sido reconhecidos como grandes problemas de saúde pública em muitos países 1 , incluindo o Brasil 2 , e várias tentativas têm sido realizadas para identificar o melhor preditor antropométrico 3 para diversas doenças e agravos não transmissíveis em diferentes populações e faixas etárias. Para o diagnóstico do excesso de peso, várias técnicas têm sido propostas para estimar com precisão a quantidade total de gordura corporal, assim como sua distribuição 4 .…”

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The ability of waist-to-height ratio to identify health risk

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the ratio between the waist circumference and the height in the identification of health risk compared with the correlation matrix between the anthropometric parameters body mass index and waist circumference. METHODS: A population-based study presenting a transversal cut in a representative sample of the Brazilian adult and older population. The combination of the body mass index with the waist circumference resulted in health risk categories, and the cutoff points of the ratio between the waist circumference and the height as anthropometric indicator were used for classification of low and increased risk. Poisson regression was used to verify the association of systemic arterial hypertension with the health risk categories. RESULTS: The results showed 26% of adult men, 10.4% of adult women and more than 30% of the older adults of both genders classified as without risk by the combination matrix between body mass index and waist circumference presented a ratio between the waist circumference and height that showed increased risk. All risk categories continued to be associated with hypertension after control for confounding factors, being almost two times higher for adults with moderate and high risk according to both methods. When the waist-to-height ratio was used as a risk indicator, the prevalence of hypertension ratios for the older adults was 1.37 (95%CI 1.16–1.63) and 1.35 (95%CI 1.12–1.62) for men and women, respectively, being these values close to the combination matrix body mass index and waist circumference. CONCLUSIONS: The waist-to-height ratio identified more individuals at early health risk than the combination matrix between the body mass index and the waist circumference and showed comparable ability to identify health risk, regardless of gender and age, regarding the prevalence ratios for systemic arterial hypertension.

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