Women from the Peruvian Highlands with Normal Body Mass Index and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

Abstract

Cardiometabolic diseases constitute a public health problem of great magnitude at a global and national level, including heart and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and some types of cancer, generating a significant impact on public health. To evaluate cardiometabolic risk factors in females with a normal Body Mass Index. Prospective, explanatory, transversal and analytical. The sample was from 228 women with a normal body mass index. For body composition, anthropometric measurements (girth and height) are taken to calculate the waist/body and waist/height index. The lipid profile is obtained to analyze the Total Cholesterol/HDL, LDL/HDL and TG/HDL Index. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was evaluated using the Chilean Mediterranean Diet Index questionnaire. For data analysis, the Spearman Rho test and factorial analysis of multiple correspondences were used. The categories "High Ries according to ICT" and "High Ries according to %MG" grouped together closely, just like "Limit of %MG" and "High Ries according to CC". Groups were identified between "High risk according to ColT/HDL" and "High risk according to LDL/HDL", as well as between "Moderate risk according to ICT" and "High risk according to CC". The variables ICT, %MG, I ColT/HDL, I LDL/HDL and CC are related and contribute in a similar way to the risk classification. Study participants presented three cardiometabolic risk factors and greater association factors with high and/or high risk according to ICT, CC and %MG.