The Risk of Multimorbidity Associated with Overweight and Obesity: Data from the Brazilian National Health Survey 2013

• DOI: 10.7570/jomes20110
• Publication Date: 2021-05-11T07:18:43Z
• Authors: Thaynã Ramos Flores; Ana Paula dos San...; Rosália Garcia Neves; Sandro Rodrigues ...; Doralice Severo d...; Erika Aparecida d...; Deborah Carvalho ...; Bruno Pereira Nunes
• Keywords: Cross-sectional study

An increase in body mass index (BMI) is strongly associated with the occurrence of multimorbidity, and overweight obesity are contributing factors for morbidities. Thus, present study aimed to evaluate multimorbidity Brazilian adults without or obesity.This was a cross-sectional population-based data from National Health Survey (2013) including individuals aged 18 years older. Multimorbidity defined as having ≥2 diseases list 15 morbidities on self-reported questionnaire (self-reported medical diagnosis life). BMI categorized as: ≤24.9 kg/m2 (low weight eutrophy), 25.0-29.9 (overweight), ≥30.0 (obesity). Sex, age, schooling were covariates. Poisson regression used crude adjusted analyses variables representing access health services estimating prevalence ratio (PR) 95% confidence interval (CI).The total sample consisted 59,402 individuals. The 25% overall higher among (25.8%) obese (32.5%) Obese women 60 older had (80%). In analysis, lower observed those educational levels all classifications: low weight/eutrophy, PR=0.66 (95% CI, 0.58-0.75); overweight, PR=0.62 0.56-0.70); obesity, PR=0.75 0.67-0.85).A found who age Schooling an factor regardless BMI.