Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento

125-130

Authors: Silvane Groth Lange, Janaina Iara Lopes, Renata Gomes Navarro Kachvartanian, Francisco Navarro

Objective: This study had as purpose to evaluate the nutritional status, the practice of physical exercises and the presence of chronical diseases in employees of a town in the west of Paraná. Materials and methods: Transversal study developed with adult employees of both genus in 2012, from August to November. It was collected data about the socio-demographic profile and nutritional evaluation, through the obtainment of weight and height, bodily circumference (BC) to evaluate the risk of diseases related to obesity development. On the other hand, the chronical diseases and the practice of physical exercises were considered the employee’s report. Results: From the female employees evaluated, 34% presented overweight, 17,6% obesity class I and 7,3% obesity class II while 50% of the men presented overweight, 16,6% obesity class I and 5,7% obesity class II. In the bodily circumference 50.2% of the employees presented risk to develop diseases related to obesity and 69.2% reported to be sedentary. In relation to the presence of disease 17.6% presented one or more of them. Discussion: Gigante and collaborators in a similar study in 2006, found 47% of the men and 39% of the women were overweight while 11% presented obesity, in both genus. Conclusion: The employees’ nutritional status is committed because most of them are overweight or obese. Key words: Nutritional assessment. Nutritional status. Physical exercise. Chronical disease.

138-146

Authors: Filipe Ribeiro Araújo Santos, Paulo da Fonseca Valença Neto, Marcio Costa de Souza, Cezar augusto Casotti

Objective: Check the reliability of using self-reported measures of height and weight to obtain body mass index in women. Methods: Epidemiological study census, transversal in four pregnant women registered with the Family Health Units. We used a structured questionnaire containing questions about sociodemographic and anthropometric measures referred. Appealed to the Mann-Whitney U - Kruskal Wallis test to analyze differences between means in terms of categorical variables. For the agreement and obtain a summary measure of the values measured and reported, we used the kappa index and the correlation coefficient of Lin (CCL) respectively. Results: The women tended to underestimate both the weight and height, but more severe in weight (-0.90), which led to an overestimation of BMI (0.01). The weight was found to be above the upper limit (0.93) second correlation coefficient Lin, on the other hand the height and BMI are below the lower limit (0.89). 45.5% of women fall into the appropriate weight, representing a difference of approximately 10% compared to that (36.4%). Conclusion: BMI was calculated from the information provided does not fit the criteria of reliability values enough to indicate the reliability of these measures. Key words: Pregnant women, Body mass index, Nutritional status.