Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight: Prevalence and Associated Factors in an Adult Population from Northwest Colombia.

Background And Aim: Individuals with a normal weight may have metabolic alterations at risk for chronic non-communicable diseases. The prevalence of this condition and associated factors have not been reported in Latin American populations. We aimed to estimate the presence and associated factors of Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight (MUNW) in adults from a public program for the control and prevention of chronic diseases in Medellín, Colombia.

Excess adiposity and iron-deficient status in Colombian women of reproductive age.

Objective: Information about excess adiposity markers different from BMI and iron status is limited and more so about the shape of these associations. This study evaluated the relationship between three adiposity markers and iron-deficient status in reproductive-age women.

Methods: Cross-sectional analysis in 6357 non-pregnant women from the Colombian nutritional health survey (ENSIN) 2010.

Dietary zinc intake is inversely associated to metabolic syndrome in male but not in female urban adolescents.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship of copper and zinc dietary intakes with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents.

Methods: The sample consisted of 1,311 adolescents aged 11-16 years, and MetS definition by de Ferranti et al. was used.

Adiposity markers and cardiovascular risk in urban Colombian adolescents: heterogeneity in association patterns.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of tricipital (TS), abdominal (AS), subscapular (SS), and suprailiac (SIS) skinfolds, Body Mass Index (BMI), and Waist Circumference (WC) with 1) variables related to cardiovascular risk (CVR) and 2) the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) - referenced pediatric cut-off points - in a multivariate analysis.

Materials/methods: The sample was 1672 adolescents. Glucose, lipid profile, blood pressure and anthropometric variables were measured.