ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANTHROPOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK

INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular diseases are responsible for the majority of deaths in the elderly, and excess body weight is considered an independent risk factor for these morbidities. methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving a sample of 22 elderly women with a mean age of 74.9±7.62 years, attended from February to May 2015 at a Comprehensive Health Care Outpatient Clinic. The variables analyzed were: the latent variable "Adiposity" (latent deduced by shared variance between Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Hip Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio), socioeconomic, demographic, behavioral and metabolic variables (Glycemia, Total Cholesterol, Low Density Lipoprotein of Cholesterol (LDL-c), High Density Lipoprotein of Cholesterol (HDL-c) and Triglycerides. In addition to the Triglyceride/HDL-c Ratio, the Visceral Adiposity Index (VEI) and Triglyceride-Glycemia Index (TyG) were analyzed by SEM. The basic research, entitled "Evaluation of the nutritional risk of elderly people treated at a comprehensive health care outpatient clinic", was approved by the Human Ethics Committee of CEUMA University with Substantiated Opinion No. 00500/11. findings: The elderly women were overweight (54.6%), had a concentration of abdominal fat with high values of Waist Circumference (77.3%) and Waist-to-Height Ratio (77.3%)