Abdominal obesity and association with sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical data in climacteric women assisted in primary care.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with abdominal obesity in climacteric women assisted at Family Health Strategy units of the city of Montes Claros, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is a cross-sectional analytical study. The women were selected by probabilistic sampling from August 2014 to August 2015. A questionnaire containing information referring to sociodemographic and economic characteristics, behavioral characteristics and clinical data was used. To estimate abdominal obesity, the measure of circumference ≥ 88 cm was considered. To analyze the association between abdominal obesity and the independent variables, a bivariate analysis was performed by means of Pearson's chi-square test (p≤0.25). Subsequently, a multiple Poisson regression analysis wi

SUBMITTER: da Costa Pimenta W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7425907 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature