Adverse socio-economic conditions associated with the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities in adults in San Luis, Argentina

The prevalence of obesity depends on biopsychosocial and environmental factors and represents a risk factor for communicable and non-communicable diseases. Objectives: To determine the association between demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle characteristics and the presence of obesity and its me...

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Published inRevista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) Vol. 80; no. 4; p. 420
Main Authors Staurini, Stefano, Niclis, Camila, Calcagni, María Silvina, Ramírez, Darío, Gómez-Mejíba, Sandra Esther, Aballay, Laura Rosana
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Argentina 26.12.2023
Subjects
Adult
Argentina - epidemiology
Comorbidity
Diabetes Mellitus
Educational Status
Humans
Obesity - epidemiology
Argentina
epidemiological monitoring
metabolic diseases
socioeconomic factors
overweight
life style
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Summary:The prevalence of obesity depends on biopsychosocial and environmental factors and represents a risk factor for communicable and non-communicable diseases. Objectives: To determine the association between demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle characteristics and the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities (MC) in adults in San Luis City, Argentina. Observational population-based cross-sectional study of 306 individuals aged 18-85 years from San Luis, Argentina, selected by multistage random sampling, with an overweight prevalence of 35% and a 0.05 margin of error. Socioeconomic, demographic, and lifestyle variables were assessed, and multiple logistic regression models were fitted with the presence of obesity and MC as outcomes and sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics as covariates. Obesity was found in 17.3% of participants, diabetes in 3%, high blood pressure (HBP) in 11%, dyslipidemia in 3.3% and coronary ischemic complications (CIC) in 13%. The proportion of residents with at least one of these conditions was 26.8%. Low Educational level (EL) was positively associated with the presence of obesity (OR 3.58; IC95% 1.04-12.24; p=0,04), and its MC (OR 5.25; IC95% 1.05-26.23; p=0.04) with respect to high EL. Similarly, the possibility of presenting CIC was increased in people with medium EL (OR 5.8; IC95% 1.12-30.19; p=0.03). On the other hand, the possibility of presenting diabetes increased by 17% with increasing body mass index (BMI) (OR 1.17; IC95% 1.03-1.34; p=0.01). Finally, women were more likely to present HBP (OR 3.71; IC95% 1.01-13.72; p=0.04) and CIC (OR 3,43; IC95% 1,06-11,10; p=0,03). Conclusion: the increase in age, female sex and medium and low NI are factors and conditions of vulnerability that predispose an increase in the prevalence of MC in adults from San Luis, Argentina.
ISSN:1853-0605