Relación entre la composición corporal y nivel de actividad física en pacientes con sobrepeso y obesidad que acuden a consulta del Centro de Nutrición Integral CENIF 2016.

Abstract

The relation between body composition and the physical activity level analyzed in patients with obesity and overweight, they went to the medical consultation in the Nutrition “Integral Center “CENIF” in the period of 2016. The obesity is a public health worldwide problema, as well as in other aspect it triggered for energy imbalance and the Little physical activity (PA), altering the body composition of the person. It is descriptive study, no experimental, transversal, retrospective with a deductive method and analytic. The study sample consists of pbesity and overweight women (=70). The physical levels determined by the plication of International Physical Actuvity Questionnaire IPAQ short versión. The results report that the greatest indexo f body mass (IBM) evidence an overflow in the fat percentage and a decrease in the muscle mass (p=0.001) parameters that are associated with the physical activity (PA). The older women (40) shown the greatest muscle percentage (p=0,004), the situation that contributes reducing the weight, IBM, the fat percentage abdominal girt with PA practice. The results show that there is a relation between mass body and the PA in women with overweight and obesity; it recommends incorporating instruments that measure PA levels to the Nutritional Attention Protocol in patients with obesity and overweight.