Obesity in Patients with covid-19 in a Family Medicine Unit
Objectives: to identify the prevalence of obesity in patients diagnosed with covid-19, as well as other comorbidities. Methods: cross-sectional study, simple randomized sampling was performed, files of adults, aged eighteen years or older, were reviewed, with a diagnosis of covid-19 confirmed by rt-...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Atención Familiar |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/79579 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/atencion_familiar/article/view/79579 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sobrepeso obesidad sars-CoV-2 Overweight Obesity |
| Sumario: | Objectives: to identify the prevalence of obesity in patients diagnosed with covid-19, as well as other comorbidities. Methods: cross-sectional study, simple randomized sampling was performed, files of adults, aged eighteen years or older, were reviewed, with a diagnosis of covid-19 confirmed by rt-pcr for sars-CoV-2, attending the Family Medicine Unit (umf) No. 186 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (imss) of the State of Mexico, notified to the Online Notification System for the Epidemiological Surveillance of Influenza (sinolave), from March 25, 2020 to July 3, 2020. Age, sex, body mass index (bmi), type 2 diabetes mellitus history, hypertension and smoking were recorded, and descriptive statistics were used for variables of interest. Results: 37 files were identified, 54.05% men, 45.94% women, average age 43.1 years; 51.4% were overweight, 35.1%, obese, average bmi 28.9; 37.8% showed a history of smoking, 27%, hypertension and 16.2%, diabetes mellitus. Conclusions: there was a high prevalence of overweight and obesity (86.5%), the main comorbidity was smoking, followed by hypertension. |
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