Prevalencia de obesidad tipo I y II en pacientes de 25 a 65 años atendidas en un Hospital de 3er nivel de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Both obesity and overweight are factors that lead to the development of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. The life expectancy of obese people is reduced between five and eight years. Therefore, our objective is to determine the prevalence of type I and II obesity in patients between 25 and 65 years of age treated in the outpatient clinic of Endocrinology in a 3rd level hospital in Guayaquil. The methodology used was descriptive, quantitative and for the collection of data, an indirect observation guide is applied, by means of ten items with dichotomous and multiple options. The universe consisted of 40 patients from 25 to 65 years of age treated in the endocrinology outpatient clinic diagnosed with obesity I and II from a third level hospital in the city of Guayaquil. As a result it was evident that 70% of patients with obesity have Type II obesity, with cholesterol levels of <50mgdll, glycemia 32%, also have diseases such as diabetes mellitus II (25%), hypertension (60%), dyslipidemia (53%) and cardiovascular diseases (25%). Arriving at the conclusion, based on the information of the patients of the area of Endocrinology, of the Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, it is necessary to intervene through orientations, to indicate to them the importance of continuing with the cares and the medical controls continuously. To recommend to the authorities of the institution that the metabolic syndrome of patients with obesity type 1 and type 2 should be determined, because they allow to warn the development of other diseases.