Obesity,its relation with other coronary risk facts

Abstract

Obesity, the epidemic of the century, reaches a higher and higher importance as risk fact for vascular diseases, among them ischemic cardiopaty, stated as one of the first causes of death in adult population. We carried out a study with all the patients who entered the medicine service in the room L of the Military Hospital Dr Mario Muñoz Monroy during the period from January 1998 to January 2003. The universe was formed by 1 197 patients, classified according to the index of corporal mass (ICM), in normal weight and obese patients, with the general objective of establishing a correlation between obesity and other coronary risk facts, and defining as specific objectives: Determining obesity's behaviour and its distribution according to age groups, showing the relation between the different levels of obesity and another modifiable coronary risk facts like arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, and Hyperuricemia and also how to derine the correlation between obesity and ischemic cardiopaty. The results showed that there is predominance in ages between 35 and 44 years old, that the highest number of hypertensive patients, diabetics, and patients carrying hypercholesterolemia and hyperuricemia is among obese patients in relation with normal weight patients. There is also an increase of these variables as obesity turns more and more severe, and we establish the relation between obese patients and ischemic cardiopaty, through which we stated in our conclusions the tight link between obesity and another coronary risk facts also conditioning the incidence of the ischemic cardiopaty.