Excesso de peso e índice de conicidade em idosos com diabetes mellitus

Objective: To verify the frequency of excess weight and the classification of the taper index in elderly people with diabetes mellitus. Methodology: Quantitative, cross-sectional study carried out with users of a Basic Health Unit in the city of Recife-PE. Data collection took place in two stages. The first step was the application of a sociodemographic questionnaire identifying of the following variables: age, sex, marital status, education, chronic non-communicable diseases, income and its origin. In the second stage, the anthropometric measures composed of weight, height, waist circumference, calculation of the body mass index and the calculation of the conicity index were measured. Results: The mean age of the sample was 71.5 (± 6.85), with a minimum age of 60 and a maximum of 85 years. 91.5% of the patients showed the presence of one or more diseases associated with diabetes mellitus, the most frequent being systemic arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, kidney disease and heart disease. According to an anthropometric evaluation, the average body mass index of the individuals was 27.44 (± 5.18) kg / m², compatible with the classification overweight for this measure, BMI > 27kg/m²; the waist circumference obtained an average of 97.70 (± 11.15) cm, the classification of cardiovascular risk by CC, > 80cm for women and >94cm for men, and the taper index was 1.39 (± 0.08), representing the risk for cardiovascular disease, with cut-off points of >1,18 for women and >1,25 for men. Conclusion: It was concluded that most of the sample of elderly people with diabetes mellitus was overweight and almost all were classified as having a conicity index as a risk.