"Estado nutricional e risco de doença cardiovascular de mulheres no climatério atendidas em um ambulatório da cidade de São Paulo" / Nutritional status and cardiovascular risk assessment of climateric women attended on an out-patient clinic of São Paulo, Brazil.

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2003

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Purpose: To evaluate the nutritional status and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk of climacteric women. Methodology: Transversal study, composed by 200 women aged 35-65 years, grouped according to the climacteric stage: premenopause (PRE), perimenopause (PERI) and postmenopause (POS). The PÓS group was divided in two groups: with no hormonal replacement therapy (N/HRT) and with oral HRT for at least 12 months (W/HRT). The nutritional status was assessed by body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BF%); the CVD risk was assessed by waist hip ratio (WHR). The significance level used for the analyses was alpha=5%. Results: According to BMI, the pre-obesity + obesity prevalences were 65,4% (PRÉ), 70,9% (PERI) e 67,4% (POS) and there was no significant difference among these groups. Compared with the group W/HRT, there was a higher rate (p=0,04) of obesity among women in the N/HRT group: 21,4% and 48,4%, respectively. The BF% showed overweight and obesity in 50,7% (PRE), 66,7% (PERI) and 57,4% (POS); 67,7% (N/TRH) and 54,8% (W/TRH), differences that were not statisticaly significant. In all groups there was a greater proportion of women considered with high and very high risk of CVD: 90,7% (PRE), 95,8% (PERI) and 84,1% (POS); 90,3% (N/TRH) and 76,2% (W/TRH) and the risk did not differ statisticaly among the groups. Conclusion: The majority of women had increased obesity-related and cardiovascular disease risk, emphasizing women´s health attention programms to the prevention of the leading mortality causes in this group.

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climatério climacteric nutritional status doença cardiovascular estado nutricional cardiovascular disease

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