Prevalencia de la obesidad en adolescentes y adultos: una revisión sistemática de alcance

Obesity is considered as the abnormal accumulation of adipose tissue that can be detrimental to health, which is why the present systematic scoping review was proposed with the aim of determining the prevalence of obesity in adolescents and adults. The protocol of the present systematic review was constructed according to the Preferred Reporting Items Form Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols guidelines and the methodology of the Joanna Briggs Institute, using the Health Sciences Descriptors: prevalence AND obesity AND adolescents and/or adults, which were inserted in databases such as: SciELO, Dialnet, Ibecs and Lilacs. The results reported a very significant prevalence of abdominal obesity, being higher in women compared to men; in the studies where overweight and obesity are related, a high prevalence is reflected, affecting men and women in a similar way; as for the researches where only the obesity variable was evaluated, most of them reflected a low prevalence rate of obesity, except for one study that reported the opposite. It was concluded based on the evidence that the prevalence of obesity is still very present in people's lives, in the case of abdominal obesity it predominates between 40 to 49 years of age and as for adolescents it was found that there is a higher prevalence in Latin American adolescents compared to Europeans. This presents an important challenge to public health, since it is associated with a higher risk of developing various chronic diseases.

• Main Author: Pintado Álvarez, Brayan Iván (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: ENFERMERIA; OBESIDAD; ADOLESCENTE; ADULTO
• Online Access: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/30786