Association between Cardiovascular Risk and Nutritional Status of Elderly

During the aging process occur several changes, among them the increased weight and obesity contribute to the health risk potential of this population. Bringing losses as disability, increased morbidity and impaired quality of life. The aim of the research was Check if there is association between cardiovascular risk and nutritional status of assisted elderly outpatients. This is a cross-sectional study conducted at the Clinic in São Luís- MA, conducted on May 2015. participated in the survey 33 elderly diabetics. Data collection was conducted through two questionnaires and conducting anthropometric measurements. The distribution between age groups showed a higher proportion 54.55% of participants between 60 and 69 years. Regarding nutritional status, 39.39% had a diagnosis of overweight, to assess cardiometabolic risk by waist circumference 72.73% were at risk. There was a relationship between nutritional status and metabolic risk, with p- value (0.006) where the worse nutritional status, increased risk of cardiovascular complications. There was a high prevalence of obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease in the elderly population with significant association, following the global panorama of epidemiology current. Nutritional monitoring in conjunction with intervention strategies involving the various sectors of the community should. For the organization of the data were performed encodings of all the variables of the collection instruments with double data entry in Microsoft Office Excel® program (2011). Completed validation by double entry, data were analyzed in STATA 12.0® program. The significance level was 5 %. Statistically significant association was observed (p < 0.05) between cardiometabolic risk measured by waist circumference and body mass index variable, the diagnosis of overweight correlates with increased risk of cardiovascular complications (92.31 %). 100% of obese elderly had risk presenting an increased waist circumference. There was a high prevalence of obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease in the elderly population with significant association, following the global panorama of epidemiology current. Nutritional monitoring in conjunction with intervention strategies involving the various sectors of the community should.