Revista Cubana de Investigaciones Biomédicas (Sep 2006)
Estado de salud de los trabajadores de la Tercera Edad del Hospital “General Calixto García” Health state of the third age workers at “General Calixto Garcia” Hospital
Abstract
Se realizó un estudio descriptivo a todos los trabajadores ancianos del hospital (135), donde se les hizo una encuesta para indagar sobre las enfermedades crónicas: diabetes mellitus, asma, hipertensión arterial y otras; y hábito de fumar. Se evaluó el estado nutricional mediante el peso y la talla y se calculó el índice de masa corporal. Se realizó la prueba de significación de independencia con la utilización de chi cuadradocon una pA descriptive study was undertaken among all the elderly workers of the hospital (135). A survey was done to know about their chronic diseases: diabetes mellitus, asthma, arterial hypertension, among others, and smoking habit. Their nutritional status was evaluated by calculating weight, height and body mass index. The independence significance test was made by using x² with a p < 0.05. There was a higher percentage of workers aged 60-69 (70.4 %). It was observed a predominance of workers with chronic diseases (62.2 %). The most frequent were hypertension (75 %), diabetes mellitus (27,4 %) and bronchial asthma (20,4 %). Of the workers with hyperlipoproteinemia, 86.7 % were overweight. This nutritional state accounted for 60.9 % of the diabetics and 60.4 % of the hypertensives. 23 % were smokers.
