Determinación de la masa grasa corporal medido por bioimpedancia y por ecuación CUN – BAE en los estudiantes de la Escuela de Nutrición y Dietética de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo 2013.

Abstract

The purpose of the following research is to determine the relation of the nutritional status measured by means of bioimpedance and CUN (Clinical University of Navarra) – BAE (Body Adiposity Estimator) equation applied for the students of Dietetics and nutrition school from ESPOCH, this is a non-experimental and transversal study for 258 students. Some results considered as general characteristics were gotten, they are: nutritional studies, anthropometric data, and bioimpedance. For this study, Microsoft Excel 2007, JPM 5.1, and Epidat.bat 4.0 programs were used. The students showing a high percentage are 79.2% of women from 18 to 27 years with the following nutritional status: 17% overweight, 2.7% malnutrition 1, 78.7% normal, 18% low adiposity, 8.7% overweight, 72.8%normal this by means of Bioimpedance. 12.7% overweight, 4.7% obesity, 81.8% normal, this by means of CUN – BAE. A sensibility of 72.2% and a specificity of 87.7% were found for CUN – BAE, this shows that CUN – BAE is a good tool to identify healthy people. The correlation is high (93.8%) and the hypothesis is rejected due to the differences existing in the nutritional status according adiposity percentage measured by means of Bioimpedance and CUN – BAE.