Relación de perfil lipídico y composición corporal de los usuarios que acuden al Club de adultos mayores Mitad del Mundo, parroquia San Antonio de Pichincha.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the relationship between lipid profile and body composition of the users who attend the Middle of the World Senior Citizens Club, San Antonio de Pichincha Parish; for which a quantitative, descriptive and correlational study was carried out. The participants were 130 elderly people with an average age of 72 years old. The data analysis was conducted using SPSS statistical software. For the quantitative descriptive statistics, it was represented in mean, median, and standard deviation, among the main results of body composition, overweight patients predominated 36.2%, as for the percentage of fat mass 55.4% showed very high levels, 63.1% showed high levels of visceral fat and 70.8% of participants had low levels of muscle mass. There was a statistical significance between visceral fat and HDL cholesterol (p=0.006), this correlation is minimal and inversely proportional (r=-0.240) suggesting that the higher the visceral fat, the lower the HDL cholesterol. It is evidently demonstrated the importance of nutritional assessments in this population group, including biochemical studies, which would contribute to interventions that seek to prevent the development of diseases.