Excesso de peso e enfermidades associadas em pacientes do Hospital Universitário da UFGD

Abstract

Lately changes in the epidemiological profile are showing more and more people develop the risk of chronic diseases, including chronic diseases are obesity. Bringing implications such as increased surgical and anesthetic risk and decreased physical agility and approximately 200,000 deaths in Latin America each year, due to comorbidities related to obesity. Overweight also has consequences on the quality of life of obese, which is able to produce emotional and psychological disturbances, the discrimination, among other factors, can be highlighted. Therefore, this study aims to identify the nutritional status of hospitalized patients by relating it to clinical diagnosis. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between February and December 2013, in which 971 patients were studied, and of these, 42.8% were overweight/obese. The highest prevalence of overweight was found in surgical adults (48.3%) and liver disease patients (10.7%). However it is necessary to develop long-term strategies that can behavioral changes that favor oriented consumption of healthy foods, combined with the practice of regular exercise and positive lifestyle. Since only through awareness of the damage caused by obesity health is that, you can reverse the current scenario of an epidemic increase in obesity for the next generations.