Associação Entre O Consumo Alimentar E Fatores De Risco Cardiometabólicos Em Uma Amostra Da População De Servidores Da Universidade Federal Do Tocantins

Abstract

Introduction: the simultaneous presence of factors such as obesity, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, high blood pressure and insulin resistance is called Metabolic Syndrome and is linked to changes in the habits of the population, determined by the needs of "modern life". Objective: to perform nutritional clinical screening of fourteen employees of the Universidade Federal do Tocantins and to compare dietary intake with nutritional reference recommendations for healthy adults, associating the inadequacies of dietary intake with the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors. Method: A detailed anamnesis was performed to collect sociodemographic, anthropometric and food consumption data. The data was analyzed in the DietBox and Microsoft Office Excel softwares. Results: 71.4% of the participants were married, distributed equally between the sexes (50%), aged between 27 and 42 years. All participants reported they had never smoked and 50% reported consuming alcoholic beverage. Concerning regular physical activity; the majority is considered sedentary (57.2%). Regarding the nutritional status, 42.86% were overweight / obese, 50% were eutrophic and 7.14% presented three grade thinness. The waist circumference revealed 35.70% of individuals at very high cardiometabolic risk and 14.28% presented fasting blood glucose alterations. The mean energy consumption of the 24-hour recall was 1651.92 Kcal, protein and lipid intakes were within the recommendation. The daily intakes of retinol, thiamine, niacin, ascorbic acid, iron, selenium and phosphorus were higher than recommendations. Conclusion: An unfavorable health situation was identified when the anthropometric and dietary parameters of the servers participating in the study were analyzed, confirmed by biochemical tests, which revealed a population predisposed to cardiovascular diseases and non-communicable chronic diseases.