标题:Actividad física, estado nutricional y obesidad abdominal en profesores del área de la cultura física / Physical activity, nutritional state and abdominal obesity in physical culture profesors field
期刊名称:Revista international de medicina y ciencias de la actividad fisica y del deporte
印刷版ISSN:1577-0354
出版年度:2012
卷号:12
期号:46
页码:209-220
出版社:CV Ciencias del Deporte RedIRIS
摘要:The aim of this work was to estimate the prevalence of physical activity level, nutritional state and abdominal obesity in Physical Culture professors from Mexicali Baja California. 79 professors of 43.4 ± 9.8 years old were studied, to classify the physical activity level was applied the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), to determine the nutritional state and abdominal obesity, anthropometric measurements were taken (weight, stature and waist circumference). Resulting whit high physical activity level 46.8%, moderate 27.8% and low 25.3% of the population. The prevalence of combined overweight and obesity using the BMI was 82.3% and the prevalence of abdominal obesity was 43.5% in male and 29.4% in female. The findings of this study shows high combined prevalence in high and moderate physical activity level in these subjects, but for other side high prevalence of overweight and obesity even higher than Mexican people average.