Relación entre fuerza Prensil y factores de Riesgo Cardiovascular en Adulto Mayor (60 - 80 Años) del Municipio del Carmen de Chucurí.

Abstract

Enjoying a healthy old age free of ailments is perhaps one of the most frequent wishes of the human being, however, this is achieved depending on the functional capacity of the body, which is associated with various emotional factors, physical condition, behavior and lifestyles, which must be optimal to achieve this desire (Triana and Ramírez, 2013). Therefore, the objective of the research was to identify the relationship of grip strength together with cardiovascular risk factors (blood pressure, level of adiposity and waist circumference, muscle mass) in an adult over 60 to 80 in the municipality of Carmen de Chucurí, Santander, through a quantitative research model, with a cross-sectional approach, evaluating 233 older adults, who were assessed for grip strength, blood pressure, level of adiposity, waist circumference and muscle mass. In this sense, it was found that there is a statistically significant relationship between dominant and non-dominant grip strength (p = 0.01; 0.000 respectively) with age, muscle mass percentage (p = 0.000) and body fat percentage (p = 0.001) and waist circumference (p = 0.001).