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Revista Arbitrada Interdisciplinaria de Ciencias de la Salud. Salud y Vida
versión On-line ISSN 2610-8038
Resumen
GUAPI-GUAMAN, Fausto Iván; MORCILLO-VALENCIA, Romario Javier; FALCONES-BARBOSA, Elizabeth-Del-Rocío y MINA-GONZALES, Joaquin Milton. Prevalence of overweight and obesity. Health problem in the Ecuadorian university and polytechnic community. Salud y Vida [online]. 2022, vol.6, n.12, pp.58-74. Epub 18-Ene-2023. ISSN 2610-8038. https://doi.org/10.35381/s.v.v6i12.1864.
Objective:
To analyze research related to the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in the university setting in order to determine the indicators of the determination of this health problem.
Method:
Descriptive review, the bibliographic search was carried out using databases such as Scielo, Dialnet, Lilacs, Scopus. PubMed and Regional Portal of the VHL. Which allowed the selection of 33 scientific articles.
Results and conclusions:
From the researches consulted, the researchers determined that, in most of these, results on the prevalence of obesity and overweight are reported, without taking into account underweight and normal weight. In addition, in the researches approached to determine the prevalence of obesity and overweight, it is done from the BMI with the data of the height and body weight of the investigated subjects and the sociodemographic factors of the investigated population.
Palabras clave : Overweight; body weight; ideal body weight.
