BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT CHRONIC-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES: USE OF THE WAIST TO HIP RELATIONSHIP AND ARM FAT INDEX
Keywords:
obesity, anthropometry, cardiovascular diseases, chronic-disease, body mass index, body constitutionAbstract
The objective of this work was to evaluate the distribution of corporal, visceral and not visceral fat, in hospitalized patients, measured by means of the anthropometry. The study evaluated 157 hospitalized patients, distributed in two groups: Group I (95 patients with chronic-degenerative diseases) and Group II (62 patients with liver, lung and kidney diseases, neoplasms, ulcers, gastritis, and hematologic diseases). The following anthropometric measurements were obtained from each patient: weight,
height, triceps skinfold thickness and circumferences (waist and hip). The largest values of the parameters waist to hip relationship and arm fat index were found in the Group I and these values were significantly superior when compared to the Group II. The results demonstrated that, in the group of patients studied, there was a differentiated distribution of body fat between patients Group I and Group II. These relationships confirm that the patients with chronic-degenerative diseases (Group I) present values of waist to hip relationship and arm fat index that are differentiating in relation to the patients with liver, lung and kidney diseases, neoplasms, ulcers, gastritis and hematologic diseases (Group II).
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