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[Relationship between ignorance of own weight and cardiovascular risk in primary care]
M A Lafarga Giribets1, M Monfort Cabané, R Sánchez Pellicer
1Especialistas en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Centro de Salud Balafia-Pardinyes-Secà. Area Básica de Lleida. Institut Català de la Salut. Lleida. España. alafarga@comll.es
Objectives:
To evaluate what health-care users know about their own weight, the distribution of body fat and the relationship of their level of knowledge with cardiovascular risk factors.
Design:
Descriptive cross-sectional study.Setting. Urban health centre.
Participants:
240 patients between 15 and 69, chosen by consecutive sampling.
Main Measurements:
Survey, analysis (n=100), body measurements and sphygmomanometry were done.
Results:
80.8% of users knew their weight to over-95% accuracy. The biggest errors were found in older patients and in women. There was great prevalence of male-style obesity (71.3%), even among women. The population with greatest errors in knowing their own weight were at greater cardiovascular risk.
Conclusions:
In elderly people, age and sex condition the Body Mass Index and their ignorance of their own weight. There is a relationship between this variable and cardiovascular risk factors. This relationship supports the taking of individual-specific health education measures on obesity in primary care.
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