Perfil lipídico como factor influyente en la composición corporal a partir de parámetros antropométricos en el personal de enfermería del Hospital General Milagro 2017.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between lipid profile and body composition in the nursing staff of the general hospital of Milagro. It is a descriptive, crosssectional, correlational, explanatory cross-sectional study applied to a population of 120 nurses of the hospital who were selected under inclusion criteria, all women aged between 30 and 60 years who did not present comorbidities. The body mass index (BMI), the percentage of fat mass, muscle mass and waist-to-hip ratio were determined, in addition to the lipid profile data (cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and VLDL) obtained in the institution's laboratory and the atherogenic index was calculated using the formula (total cholesterol/HDL). Statistical analysis of both anthropometric and lipid profile variables was performed to establish the correlation between them. It was determined that most of the study population was overweight and obese, with increased body fat and low muscle mass. It is noteworthy to find that age is related to the increase in lipid profile values, since the older the age, the greater the increase in these figures. The strongest correlation was found between the atherogenic index and the waist-hip ratio with a coefficient of determination of (r 2 = 0.20), where the variability of the atherogenic index depends on 20% of the waist-hip ratio. The rest of the variables are directly correlated, but their correlations are weak, except HDL whose correlations are inversely proportional with all the variables.