COMPARISON OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE BETWEEN ELDERLY MEN AND WOMEN Matheus Oliveira Costa, Ivan dos Santos Vivas, Sheila de Melo Borges

Abstract

The presente study investigated if there was a disparity between elderly men and women in relation to cardiovascular disease risks (CVD. Therefore,it was conducted a transversal study, 276 elders that frequent the Unidade Básica de Saúde da cidade de Santos/SP were evaluated. It was also collected information about the caderneta de saúde da pessoa idosa and caderno de atenção básica da pessoa idosa, both from the Ministério da Saúde, to caracterize the sample, as well as to get information about their health habits and nutricional status to verify CVD risks. It was considerad eight vairables to evaluate the CVD risks, the autorrelated ones: sedentarismo, smoking, hypertension, dislipemia, diabetes mellitus. And the other variables: waist to hip ratio (considering moderate CVD risk: women between 0.76 and 0.83, and high risk between 0.84 or more. Men, moderate risk between 0.91 and 0.98, and 0.99 or more), obesity (through Body Max Index (BMI), considering obesity the value equal or higher to 25) and the quantity of CVD risks (been the sum of all factors). It was possible to observe that the female group showed a higher prevalence of the quantity of cardiovascular disease risk factores (n=96; 45.1%; p=0.006), as well as a higher prevalence of hypertension (n=143; 67.1%; p<0.001), dyslipidemia (n=68; 31.9%; p= 0.026) and abdominal/waist relation (0.90±0.9; p<0.001). These results corroborate with the literature, showing that there is a significante difference in relation to cardiovascular risk factores between men and women.