Patricia Fassina

Applicatility of the visceral adiposity index (VAI) in the prediction of the components of the metabolic syndrome in elderly

UNLABELLED The nutritional assessment may detect a state of malnutrition, overweight and cardiometabolic risk in the elderly. Easy to apply instruments enable the identification of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). OBJECTIVE to analyze the applicability of Visceral Adiposity Index (VAI) in the prediction of MS components in the elderly. METHODS cross-sectional study with 221 elderly at a mean age of 70.65 ± 7.34 years; 53.4% female and 46.4% male. Weight, height, waist circumference (WC), fasting glucose, triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), HDL cholesterol (HDL-C), LDL cholesterol (LDL-C), and blood pressure (BP), data was obtained, as well as information about lifestyle. There were calculated the Body Mass Index (BMI), the Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR), and the VAI. The adiposity measures were compared with the components of MS, and for the VAI there was determined the capability of predicting the occurrence of MS components. RESULTS by analyzing the association among the biochemical and pressoric variables and MS components with the anthropometric indicators of obesity, there was a direct and significant correlation of the BMI, the weight and the VAI with blood glucose, HDL and TG (p.

Cálcio e vitamina D em adultos atendidos em ambulatório de nutrição

Objective: To assess calcium and vitamin D intake in patients attending a reference outpatient nutrition clinic. Methods: Quantitative cross-sectional study carried out from November 2015 to June 2016 to analyze 1,000 dietary recalls of patients aged 20 to 59 years attending an outpatient nutrition clinic of a university center in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. Recalls with incomplete household measures were excluded. Measures were standardized using pictures from a household measures book. The analysis of calcium and vitamin D intake was based on the Dietary Reference Intakes. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with a significance level of 5%. Results: Calcium and vitamin D intake was symmetrical, with 89.5% (n=895) of inadequate vitamin D intake and 86.6% (n=866) of inadequate calcium intake, i.e., below the daily recommendation. Men presented significantly higher calcium intake compared to women (p<0.001), while vitamin D intake showed no significant differences between genders (p=0.307). Conclusion: There was a high inadequacy of calcium and vitamin D intake in the population analyzed.