Prevalencia de síndrome metabólico en mujeres adultas en la unidad de nutrición clínica y metabolismo del Hospital Clínica Kennedy en el periodo de enero de 2019 a marzo de 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: The Metabolic Syndrome (Met-S) is a group of clinical manifestations presented with a high rate in the population across the globe with an impact for cardiac and metabolic diseases specially in females. Objective: Establish the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in adult women that go to the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Unit of the Kennedy Hospital Clinic from January 2019 to March 2020. Methodology: It's a study with a descriptive, observational, transversal and retrospective approach that identified among 204 adult women, whose medical records were reviewed, the Met-S prevalence according IDF criteria, nutritional rate measured with BMI and the presence of insulin resistance identified with HOMA-IR. Results: Regarding the nutritional status 68.4% of women with MetS were obese, 26.3% were overweight and 5.3% normal weight. 86.8% of women showed insulin resistance. The diagnosis criteria shown more frequently were abdominal obesity (100%), Hypertension (81.6%) and low levels of HDL-c (63.2%). The Met-S prevalence was shown in 18.6% of the studied population between 18-59 years old. Conclusion: The most common diagnostics criteria shown were abdominal obesity, hypertension and low levels of HDL-c. The highest percentage of women with Met-S were postmenopausal (81.6%) and obese (68.4%), which shows association with factors such as sedentarism and weight gain. 38 women had Met-S (18.6%) showing high prevalence in adult women between 18-59 years.