La composición corporal mediante la bioimpedancia y su relación con la calidad de vida en adultos mayores con Diabetes Mellitus Tipo II en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The aim of the titling work was to analyze the relation between the body composition through bio impedance and quality of life in elderly patients with Type II diabetes Mellitus in the city of Guayaquil. The study is not experimental, retrospective and cross-correlational. 84 patients with Type II diabetes Mellitus were evaluated of female gender over 65 years of age who attended the nutritional consultation at the University of Guayaquil; in which they were given an anthropometric assessment (weight, height, BMI, percentage of muscle fat and muscle) and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire and the Mini Nutritional Assessment nutritional screening (MNA) were applied. The data analysis was carried out through the statistics program SPSS where a correlation analysis was conducted that resulted in 29.8% of patients being overweight and 22.6% obese, 70.02% of the population presented a low quality of life in the health dimension. In addition, it was found meaningfulness among the corporal mass index (0,001), the nutritional state according to the MNA and the anthropometric indicators (0,001), (0,002) y (0,003) and a negative correlation was presented among the normal nutritional state and the risk of nutrition with the dimension of physical health (0,022). It was concluded that, in a state of overweight and obesity nutrition; the percentage of fat increases and there is a lower quality of life while the percentage of muscle decreases. It is recommended that a routine anthropometric assessment be performed in diabetic patients as well as nutritional screening with the quality of life questionnaire to determine if patients are at risk of malnutrition either due to excess or deficit.