Relación entre niveles de actividad física y glicemia postprandial en personas con obesidad, privadas de la libertad del Centro de Rehabilitación Guaranda.

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to establish the relationship between levels of physical activity and postprandial glycaemia in people with obesity, deprived of their liberty in the Guaranda rehabilitation center. It was carried out through a non-experimental and a cross-sectional descriptive design. The study sample includes 80 adults with obesity; also the data were tabulated in the program JMP 5.1 whose results were analyzed according to descriptive statistics of each variable with ANOVA significance tests and correlation. The results report that people deprived of liberty who have a mild physical activity level had the postprandial average glucose of 142, 04 mg/dl (high), while those deprived of liberty that had a level of moderate physical activity had a postprandial average glucose of 119 mg/dl (normal), besides those deprived of liberty who had a mild physical activity level had the average index of body mass 28.6kg/m2, and the PPL who had a moderate physical activity level presented the average index of body mass with 25.2kg/m2. This means that there is a relationship between levels of physical activity and postprandial glycaemia in people with obesity deprived of liberty, so that the practice of moderate physical activity could improve the regulation of fasting glucose levels and postprandial within the normal range in adults deprived of liberty with obesity. Finally, it is recommended that when evaluating the patient, the physical activity is included as a component which must be reflected as a diagnostic tool.