Associação do estado nutricional com a hipertensão arterial de adultos Association of the nutritional status with hypertension in adults

Abstract

Objetivo: associar a hipertensão arterial por meio do sexo, estado nutricional e avanço da idade em adultos. Métodos: estudo transversal com 5.053 adultos de ambos os sexos (20 a 60 anos), da cidade de Curitiba, PR. O índice de massa corporal e pressão arterial foram classificados segundo recomendações da Organização Mundial da Saúde e Sociedade Brasileira de Hipertensão. Utilizou-se método descritivo, distribuição de freqüência, ANOVA one way e regressão logística binária para obtenção de "Odds Ratio", com pObjectives: associate hypertension although gender, nutritional state and advance of age in adults. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study of 5053 adults of both gender (20 and 60 years) in the city of Curitiba in Brazil. Body mass index and blood pressure were classified according recommendations of the World Health Organization and the Brazilian Society of Hypertension. Used descriptive method, frequency distribution, one-way ANOVA and binary logistic regression to obtain the "Odds Ratio", with p <0,05. Results: was a high occurrence of overweight (41.6%) and obesity (31.2%). Among obese, 15,7% is men and 13,8% is women had hypertension, in which were four times more to has hypertension when compared with normal subjects. Discussion: mans with age advance and overweight presentation association with increased blood pressure.

Keywords

• Índice de Massa Corporal
• Hipertensão arterial
• Adultos
• Body mass index
• Hypertension
• Adults