Medidas antropométricas para o diagnóstico de fatores de risco cardiometabólicos em universitários de educação física

Abstract

The study addresses anthropometric measures as a diagnosis of cardiometabolic risk factors for beginners and graduates of PUC Goiás. The objectives of the study were to estimate the cardiometabolic risk of university students in the physical education course based on anthropometric measures. A cross-sectional descriptive study was developed with 19 students enrolled in the 1st and 8th of the Physical Education course (semester 2019/2). The collection of anthropometric measurements of height were obtained through an anthropometer, and the measurements of body mass were performed using a digital scale. Waist circumference was measured with a flexible tape measure. After measuring anthropometric variables, the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Waist-Height Ratio (WHR) were determined. The cut-off point for the WHR adopted was 0.5, with values greater than or equal to this being classified as risk for NCDs. Statistical analyzes were performed on STATA (12.0). The normality of the data was analyzed by the Shapiro-Wilk test and the comparison between groups performed by the unpaired t test. The level of significance was set at 5% (p <0.05), with quantitative variables being presented with mean and standard deviation. There was no evidence of cardiometabolic risk in the evaluated group, since the anthropometric measurements of BMI, WHR and WC are within the expected values for normality. There was no difference for the variables analyzed between the 1st and 8th periods, however, there was a significant difference for the variables of body mass and waist circumference for the male group.