Abstract:

Knowing that the feeding and the nutritional state are factors of extreme importance for the increase of the life expectancy, the present study it has as purpose to evaluate the nutritional state of the aged, to know the main patologics that go for them and to verify the existence of relation between the patologics and the nutritional state. The research is characterized as descriptive exploratory with transversal delineation and quantitative boarding, where the participants of the research were aged above 60 years of both the sex taken care of in the Clinical School of Nutrition Doctor Zilda Arns, in the year of 2015. The Weight, Height, IMC were analysed the data of handbooks, referring, RCQ and patologics referred to for the same. It was obtained as resulted that 65.9% of the women and 60% of the men were classified according to IMC with Excess of Weight, 64.4% had presented risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Amongst the main cited patologics she was highlighted Diabetes and hypertension presenting itself in 30,50% of the aged. One also evidenced that the weight excess favours the appearance of not transmissible the chronic diseases, since 64.4% of the patients with this nutritional state presented these types of diseases. These findings strengthen the necessity of a work of nutritional education along the life for the maintenance of nutritional good condition during all the phases of the life, avoiding as soon as in the oldness the diseases are developed that are related directly with the nutritional state.

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