Overweight and Obesity: Frequent Nutritional Characteristics in a Sample of Mexican Patients with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
Keywords:
Breast neoplasms, nutritional status, overweight, obesityAbstract
Objective: To describe nutritional characteristics in patients diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer treated at a public hospital in Mexico City.
Methods: A transversal study was performed to evaluate the nutritional state of breast cancer patients using diverse indicators: body mass index, theoretical weight percentage, waist-hip ratio and abdominal circumference.
Results: Forty-five patients were evaluated. In all the indicators studied in the sample, high levels of overweight and obesity prevailed. This fact, in turn, may be related to the rise in breast cancer incidence.
Conclusions: Breast cancer is the highest-ranked neoplasia in morbidity and mortality in Mexico. At the same time, the Mexican population has grown increasingly overweight and obese. This study ascertained that more than half of breast cancer patients are overweight or obese—an important risk factor linked to this neoplasia.
Author Biographies
Gabriela Gutiérrez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D. F., México
Maribel Autrique, Universidad Iberoamericana
Universidad Iberoamericana, México, D. F., México
Guillermo Ceballos, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D. F., México
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