Influencia del índice de masa corporal en pacientes de sexo femenino diagnosticadas con cáncer de mama en el Hospital Naval en la ciudad de Guayaquil durante el periodo de enero del 2016 a enero del 2018.

Abstract

Breast cancer is a disease with great impact worldwide, being this the main cause of death in women. A non-experimental study of a descriptive type and with a retrospective, observational approach was carried out in which a database of patients carried out under the ICD-10 C50 diagnosis code was used as a source of information, at the Naval Hospital of the city of Guayaquil with the aim of analyzing the most frequent body mass index in breast cancer. It was determined that 77.5% of women with breast cancer have a high body mass index. We believe that promoting a healthy lifestyle in the general population would eradicate the risk factor of overweight and obesity for breast cancer in women.