ENFERMEDADES CRÓNICAS NO TRANSMISIBLES Y ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE USUARIOS ATENDIDOS EN EL DISPENSARIO Nº 9 DEL IESS PORTOVIEJO MAYO-OCTUBRE 2012

Abstract

The findings of different studies evidence that the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases starts since fetal life until old ages, therefore they are associated with an nutritional status. A prospective-descriptive study was realized, the purpose was associate the chronic non-communicable diseases and the nutritional status of users served on the dispensary Nº 9 IESS of Portoviejo during May to October 2012. The universe was form by 3600 users with different diseases was evaluated during 6 month, including dyslipidemias, hypertension and diabetes 2. Using inclusion and exclusion criteria we got a sample of 102 users female and male between 30 and 50 years old, from which general characteristics, personal and family history, physic activity, body mass index, waist hip ratio, ideal weight, weight loss percentage and a modified food frequency questionnaire were obtained. The association of chronic non-communicable diseases and nutritional status the result of this study reveals that mostly of users with hypertension presented overweight(9,8%) (IMC 25-29.9 kg/m2), patients with diabetes mellitus 2 mostly had overweight too (10,8%), finally the pathology that presented increased levels of overweight and obesity were dyslipidemias (46,08%).By relating them with other factors: the cardiovascular risk was highest on the users with dyslipidemias (36,3%), same as sedentary lifestyle(53,9%), while the family history didn’t represents an risk factor. The users that received 6 month of nutritional therapy evidenced a significant loss of weight (99%), which improves pathological condition of the users. This shows that nutritional status affects chronic non-communicable diseases. An appropriate control and a healthy lifestyle can improve o retard disease evolution, therefore a nutritional treatment protocol were made for de dispensary