Relación de la sarcopenia con el estado nutricional en pacientes con enfermedades reumatológicas del centro médico IRHED del cantón Samborondón.

Abstract

Introduction: sarcopenia is a chronic disease defined as the loss of muscle mass, and the compromise of strength, causing a gradual decrease of it, a condition that affects the quality of life for the individual; in relation to this, the general objective of this research is to evaluate the relationship between sarcopenia and the nutritional status of rheumatic patients. Methodology: The present research is a prospective, descriptive, qualitative and longitudinal study of cases (CA) and controls (CO), attended at the IHRED medical center; It was carried out in a population sample of 120 participants, distributed in sixty cases, constituted by rheumatological patients and sixty controls, who did not have any rheumatological disease, establishing such selection mainly based on the consideration of an age over 45 years, the diagnosis of any rheumatological disease, registration of manual dynamometry, bioimpedanciometry or bone densitometry and autonomous capacity of response to frequency of food consumption, physical exercise and complementary tests. Results: 81.7% of the participants were female and 18.3% were male for the control group and 84.7% were female and 15.3% male for the case group. The caloric intake of both groups ranged between 1000 and 1999 Kcal per day, being mostly rich in carbohydrates, with 100 to 200 g of carbohydrates per day. Conclusion: it is deduced that the nutritional factor could represent an influential conditioning factor in the presence of sarcopenia, mainly in rheumatologic patients.