Prevalência e Fatores de Risco para Síndrome Metabólica em Pessoas Vivendo com HIV em Alagoas

Abstract

Therapeutic advances in the management of HIV have increased the survival of infected people. However, it predisposed these individuals to cardiovascular risk factors resulting from aging, antiretroviral therapy and the long-term effects of the virus. In this sense, the objective was to identify the prevalence and risk factors for Metabolic Syndrome in people living with HIV in outpatient care in Alagoas. To this end, data were collected from 26 people living with HIV who are undergoing treatment at a referral outpatient clinic in Maceió/Alagoas. The diagnosis of metabolic syndrome was made according to the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program/Adult Treatment Panel III. The sample was divided into 2 groups: with and without metabolic syndrome and submitted to descriptive and statistical analyses. For the analyses, the Prism grafpad 5.0® software and the G, t-student and Mann-Whitney statistical tests were used, considering a statistical difference when p≤ 0.05. The prevalence of the Syndrome in the sample was 38.46%. All samples were exposed to some risk factor, with low HDL being the most prevalent. In the group with syndrome there are higher values of weight, body mass index, neck, hip and waist circumferences, triglycerides and blood pressure than the group without the syndrome. It is concluded that the metabolic syndrome in people living with HIV is high, which is associated with visceral obesity, hypertriglyceridemia and arterial hypertension.