Prevalencia de malnutrición en adultos mayores del Centro de Salud tipo C Nabón en el período 2018

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine malnutrition associated factors prevalence in elderly patients at the Nabon´s type C Health Center, Azuay province, during the year 2018. METHODOLOGY: This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective, and cross-sectional type of research, carried out at the Nabon´s type C Health Center; using an statistical database with information from health records belonging to the subjects under study, previously loaded in an excel datasheet. RESULTS: The population under study was made up of 216 malnourished older adults, between 65 and 85 years old, the 59.26% were female and 40.74% were male. The most affected age range was the people among 65-74 years, representing 51.85% of the analyzed population. The prevalence of overweight presented the highest percentage of 43.52%, and obesity in 29.17%. The correlation of the risk factor with age, it was found that the ages between 75 to 84 years were higher in arterial hypertension with 18.52%. In the female sex, arterial hypertension (25%) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (21.76%) were higher. CONCLUSIONS: There is a high prevalence of risk factors with malnutrition, which constitute overweight and obesity due to hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and Parkinson's disease.