SILVA, Vera Lúcia da.
Abstract:
Obesity is one of the fastest growing problems in Brazil and the world, appointed by to present multifactorial causes, associated to lifestyle, sedentary lifestyle, dietary intake and genetics. Represented as one of the main factors of non-communicable chronic diseases such as diabetes type II, dyslipidemia, heart diseases and high blood pressure. These problems can be diagnosed, for example, the rating of body composition (BC), which over time has been shown as a potential source studies because it is a tool that search to quantify the components of the human body. Thereby allowing monitoring of several variables of physical fitness related to health, illness and quality of life. It is intended with this research to know the body composition of patients treated in clinical nutrition practices, evaluated by index of corporal mass, the methods of skin fold thickness and bioelectrical impedance of a University Center of Curimataú in State of Paraíba, based on clinical data collection . It was analyzed patients attended by students of the practical discipline of Clinical Nutrition both sexes. For anthropometric analysis were collected data in respect to gender, weight, height, and determining the Body Mass Index (BMI), skinfold, triceps, biceps, subscapular and supra-iliac with fat percentage and classification, as well as the bioimpedance, level physical activity, profession and returns. It was analyzed 117 records of both sexes. The most of the sample was made up of the female population 76, 9%. The women also showed greater number of returns 31.1%. In relation to the variable physical activity men 55.5%, present high frequency in all parameters. About the analysis of nutritional status the most part of them shows eutrophic. When analyzed the percentage of fat obtained by DC and bioimpedance, both genders have been maintained high levels of references, and a greater emphasis on women especially in bioimpedance. Based on these results considering the needs of the population served on site, strengthened the importance of outpatient care nutrition, early diagnosis and prevention taking into consideration the risks of comorbidities presents in these patients.
