Overweight is the imbalance between caloric intake and energy expenditure, with obesity being
the most serious case, and in the last decades, it has become one of the major health problems,
since it is associated with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and other pathologies.
The objective of this study was to characterize the occurrence of excess weight and the
associated factors among patients attended at the nutrition clinic of a university hospital. This
is a descriptive field study with an exploratory and cross-sectional character, with samples
collected through the medical records of the patients attending the nutrition clinic of the João
de Barros Barreto University Hospital of Belém (PA), for a year, from April 2018 to April 2019.
During this period, 87 patients were selected who met the inclusion criteria, of both sexes, of
which the women were the majority (65.52%), with a mean age of 49.4±10.8 years. About
82.76% were overweight, compared to laboratory tests, 70.11% had high blood glucose levels,
57.47% had high total cholesterol, only 50.57% had high triglycerides, 59.77 % had low HDL
and 43.68% had high LDL, there was a slight positive correlation between glycemia and
triglyceridemia and a slight negative correlation between triglyceridemia and HDL-cholesterol.
It was concluded that overweight was significantly frequent in the sample studied, and
hyperglycemia was the most prevalent biochemical alteration in this study.
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