Riesgo metabólico relacionado con la grasa visceral en el personal que labora en el Hospital General “Dr. Gustavo Dominguez Zambrano” provincia Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas 2015.

Abstract

A poor diet of physical activity and unhealthy life styles are one of the main modifiable causes because people get metabolic risk, which generates strong impact and high cost on society. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between metabolic risk and visceral fat from Dr. Gustavo Dominguez Z. General Hospital staff. This study was descriptive, transversal and 99 patients of both sexes had been participated. Anthropometric measurements, lipid profile and food in taken, also the data were tabulated by 5.1 JMP program. Among the most relevant results it was found that: 65.65% were women. Most predominant ages were from 28 to 40 years old, in terms of metabolic risk factors 70.7% have overweight /obesity, 31.31% with high metabolic risk and 24.23% with very high risk, 68.68% had a high total cholesterol, thus cluster analysis was used to relate the same with visceral fat giving as result that group 3 had higher incidence of metabolic risk being this study statistically significant with 0.009 of provability. About the lifestyle it showed that 13.13% smoked cigarette, 8.08% drank alcohol and 35.35% are sedentary. It concludes that visceral fat is associated with metabolic risk, so it recommended integrating all staff in order to develop strategies and programs to prevent health and nutrition.