Hábitos alimenticios y su relación con la salud en los obreros de carrocerías CEPEDA de la ciudad de Ambato, 2012.

Abstract

The objective is to determine the relationship between Eating habits and health of workers. The research is cross-cutting, with a universe of 85 workers. For data collection we used a bioimpedance scale, surveys were conducted to collect general characteristics, lifestyles and eating habits, glucose data and lipid prolife were collected and analyzed. The tabulation and analysis was performed in statistical software, JMP 5.1, SPSS 18 for significance test applied the chi 2 and Person test, with the following results: found in overweigth and obesity with around 55% which shows that there is a significantly higher prevalence of malnutrition, health status is reflected by biochemical test approximately 52% are in the range of “high-high limit” in total cholesterol, fasting glucose with a 98,82% and small percentage that has “increased risk” with 1,18%, which is high “and” very high “LDL with a 68% level” High Limit” of triglycerides 17,68%. “desirable level” of HDL with a 77.65%, no associations were found due to health status is good, the only relationship is found between nutritional status and triglycerides it is statistically significant a value of p = 0.0120. In conclusión hypothesis is accepted in part.