[Discordance between nutritional status and self perception of weight among adults from Talca, Chile].

Background: Obesity is related to underestimation of one's own weight.

Aim: To determine the agreement between nutritional status and self perception of weight status in apparently healthy adults from Talca.

Subjects And Methods: Data were obtained from a survey applied at 1007 randomly selected subjects, aged 18-74 years old (66% women).

[Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in adult from Talca, Chile].

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has several traditional risk factors (RF), and some of them are potentially modifiable.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of most common risk factors in adult population in Talca in Central Chile.

Subjects And Methods: We studied 1007 subjects aged 18 to 74 years (66% women), living in Talca, selected by a probability sampling.