Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
European Congress on Obesity (ECO2018) 25th Congress, , Vienna, Avusturya, 23 Mayıs 2018 - 25 Aralık 2020, ss.322
Akbulut, G.1
; Acar Tek, N.1
; Ayyıldız, F. 2
1
Nutrition and Dietetics, Gazi University, Ankara/Turkey
2
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Gazi University Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ankara/Turkey
Introduction: Constipation is a symptom and significant health problem
affecting individuals of all ages. A lot of factors such as obesity, sedentary lifestyle and dietary intake may effect constipation risk. The studies
showed that constipation affected significantly more women than men.
It was aimed to evaluate relationship between constipation and waist circumference in females.
Methods: Waist circumference, which is an indicator for chronic disease
risk were measured and assessed according to World Health Organization
(WHO) waist circumference classification. It consists of subscales such as
gender, mobility, fiber intake, fluid intake, pathophysiological conditions,
and medications. Both waist circumference and constipation risk, ‘cut-off ’
scores were determined for the three categories of low, moderate and high
risk. Relationships between the mean scores were determined by pearson’s correlation. A p value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically
significant.
Results:
Abstracts Obes Facts 2018;11(suppl 1):1–358 323
Tab. 1. Evaluation of a constipation risk assessment scale according to
waist circumference
Chronic disease risk according to waist circumference
Low risk
(<80 cm)
Moderate risk
(80-88 cm)
High risk
(>88 cm)
n % n % n %
Low risk
(≤10 points) 388 90.7 99 88.4 78 84.8
Moderate risk
(11-15 points) 36 8.4 11 9.8 11 11.9
High risk
(≥16 points) 4 0.9 2 1.8 3 3.3
Total 428 100.0 112 100.0 92 100.0
The mean age of individuals was 27.8 ± 10.29 years (n:428). 0.9% of females who had low disease risk according to waist circumference were
high constipation risk. 84.8% of females had high disease risk and low
constipation risk. 90.7% of individuals had low disease risk and low constipation risk. Constipation risk assessment scale scores weren’t correlated
with waist circumferences (r: 0.023 p: 0.563).
Conclusion: In this study there was any relationship between waist circumference and constipation risk assessment. Further clinical studies investigating this relationship are needed