Low level of education associated with the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities in adults from Argentina

Authors

  • Staurini Stefano, BSc Centro de investigaciones en Nutrición Humana, Escuela de Nutrición, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
  • Niclis Camila, PhD Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud (INICSA-CONICET).
  • Calcagni Silvina, BSc Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Carrera de Nutrición.
  • Ramirez Darío, PhD Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Laboratorio de Medicina Experimental y Traduccional. (CONICET-San Luis).
  • Sandra Esther Gómez-Mejíba Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Laboratorio de Medicina Experimental y Traduccional. (CONICET-San Luis).
  • Laura Rosana Aballay Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Nutrición Humana. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3566

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31053/1853.0605.v80.n4.40737

Keywords:

overweight, epidemiological monitoring, socioeconomic factors, lifestyle, cardiometabolic diseases

Abstract

The prevalence of obesity depends on biopsychosocial and environmental factors, and it is a risk factor for non-communicable and communicable diseases such as COVID-19. Objective: To determine the association between sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics and the development of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities (MC).

Observational-population-cross-sectional study in 306 individuals >18 years of age from San Luis Argentina. Age, sex, educational and socioeconomic level (EL and SES: low/medium/high), level of physical activity (METs/day), energy intake (Cal/day), obesity (BMI>30kg/m2) and self-reported MC (diabetes, arterial hypertension [AHT], dyslipidemia and heart disease).

Multiple logistic regression models were adjusted including the presence of obesity and MC as outcome, and sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics as covariates. 26.8% had at least one disease (17.3% obesity, 3% diabetes, 11% hypertension, 3.3% dyslipidemia, 13% heart disease). Having medium EL increased the chance of presenting heart disease, compared to high (OR 5.3; p=0.03). A low EL was associated with obesity (OR 3.58; p=0.04), and its MC (p<0.05). The chance of presenting diabetes increased by 17% as the BMI increased (p=0.01). Women presented more chances of having AHT (p=0.04) and heart disease (p=0.03).

Medium-low NI, age and being a woman are associated with the development of MC.

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Author Biographies

Staurini Stefano, BSc, Centro de investigaciones en Nutrición Humana, Escuela de Nutrición, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Degree in nutrition from the National University of San Luis, Argentina. Doctorate Becario since 2021 by CONICET

Doctorate in Health Sciences by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba Argentina.

Main research line: Predictive models with Machine Learning for epidemiological surveillance in chronic diseases.

Workplace: Center for Research in Human Nutrition, Escuela de Nutrición, FCM-UNC.

Niclis Camila, PhD, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud (INICSA-CONICET).

PhD in Health Sciences
Degree in Nutrition

Assistant researcher at CONICET. Scientific discipline in Medical Sciences, main field of application in Non-endemic Diseases and Hygiene, food and nutrition.
Main line of research: Eating habits, lifestyles and non-communicable diseases.


Workplace at the National University of Córdoba, Faculty of Medical Sciences. Health Sciences Research Institute (INICSA-CONICET).

Calcagni Silvina, BSc, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Carrera de Nutrición.

Clinical nutrition specialist.

degree in nutrition

Professor in the nutrition course.

Ramirez Darío, PhD, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Laboratorio de Medicina Experimental y Traduccional. (CONICET-San Luis).

Biochemist formed in the field of free radical biology and medicine and immunometabolism. Molecular mechanisms of metabolic diseases and local epidemiology basis linked to SNPs in lipogenic/inflammogenic transcription factors and enzymes. Molecular basis of macrophage polarization in adipose tissue in vitro and in vivo models of diet induced obesity. Molecular basis of lung tissue inflammation and neutrophil homing/activation into the obese lung with emphasis on myloperoxidase. Link between adipose and lung tissue inflammation and insulin resistance. These data are expected to provide mechanism-based therapeutics to reduce insulin resistance using synthetic and natural products.

Sandra Esther Gómez-Mejíba, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Laboratorio de Medicina Experimental y Traduccional. (CONICET-San Luis).

PhD in Biochemistry
Biochemistry oriented in Microbiology
Independent researcher at CONICET
Main scientific discipline in Medical Sciences and Biochemistry.
Field of application in Human Health and Endemic diseases.
Professor at the National University of San Luis

Laura Rosana Aballay, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Nutrición Humana.

includes in his academic training a Doctorate in Health Sciences, a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics and a Diploma in Data Science, Machine Learning and its Applications. She also has a Postgraduate degree in Text Mining and university teaching. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and is a National Professor of Education. She is currently the deputy director of the Doctorate in Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina and is a Full Professor of the subject Statistics and Biostatistics and Informatics Applied to Nutrition at the School of Nutrition of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba. She performs research tasks at the Human Nutrition Research Center (CenINH) of the same institution where she is also in charge of co-directing. She is a stable professor of postgraduate, doctoral and specialties at the Faculty of Dentistry and Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She researches chronic and other associated diseases, using open databases, data science, and biostatistics, with certified expertise in those disciplines. She is the director of research projects subsidized with Lines that use Data Science, Natural Language Processing and machine learning for the study of chronic diseases, research in environmental epidemiology, cancer and other chronic diseases considering the social determinants of health. Within this framework, she directs undergraduate, master's and doctoral fellows and theses. In the last 3 years, she has published book chapters and scientific articles on these topics in international peer-reviewed and indexed journals (15 publications and 4 book chapters). She is part of research networks with international institutions and universities and directs and is a member of university extension projects.

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Staurini S, Niclis C, Calcagni MS, Ramírez D, Gómez-Mejíba SE, Aballay LR. Low level of education associated with the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities in adults from Argentina. Rev Fac Cien Med Univ Nac Cordoba [Internet]. 2023 Dec. 26 [cited 2024 May 19];80(4):420-38. Available from: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/40737

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