Comportamento alimentar: relação com a compulsão alimentar e os fatores de risco cardiovascular em adolescentes

Abstract

Goal: Assess the feeding behavior, the occurrence of binge eating and its relationship with nutritional status and cardiovascular risk score Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) in school adolescents. Methodology: Study of 540 teenagers between 15 and 19 years of high school public schools. Students were interviewed for the evaluation of cardiovascular risk, through PDAY score and other related variables, answered questionnaires auto applied to identification of binge eating (Dutch Food frequency Questionnaire-QHCA) and were evaluated by Anthropometry. Results: PDAY score was ranked low risk (58.5%) and intermediate/high risk cardiovascular risk (41.5%). Obtained 13.9% of adolescents with some level of binge eating. There was substantial consumption of unhealthy food markers. He was also the high prevalence of physical inactivity (79.1%) and of inactivity/lack in physical activity (58.9%). According to the simple linear regression, the abdominal circumference is the variable that most interferes in BMI (51.7%), relationship that remained in multivariate regression (54.3%). Conclusions: The nutritional status was related to the score of binge eating and this was related to increased levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and lower levels of physical activity. PDAY score and score of compulsion not shown associates. He was the high prevalence of adolescents with some level of binge eating, pointing out that the maintenance of nutritional status mechanisms need to be further studied, to configure how eating disorders.