Anthropometric and Analytical Markers of Cardiometabolic Vulnerability in Middle-Aged Women with History of Preeclampsia

Abstract

Introduction: Cardiometabolic vulnerability is used as a synonym for risk, but its scope is much greater. Its existence represents a threat to the physical or anthropogenic health of middle-aged women.
Objective: To identify anthropometric and analytical markers of cardiometabolic vulnerability with a history of preeclampsia.
Methods: A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out with middle-aged women from Santa Clara municipality, Villa Clara, from January 2020 to December 2021, assisted in the preeclampsia risk clinic in the last 10 years. The statistical analysis was carried out in two stages, descriptive analysis (mean, median, and standard deviation) and quantitative inferential analysis
(Student's t test) and qualitative analysis (chi-square test).
Results: The mean of all the variables studied resulted in risk values, with predominance in the group of middle-aged women with history of preeclampsia. Waist circumference greater than 88, waist/height index greater than 0.53 and visceral fat volume greater than 100 were the most frequently observed markers in the sample studied, especially in the group of women with history of
preeclampsia. The presence of general adiposity was identified in 95% and central adiposity in 96.7% of the women.
Conclusions: Markers of cardiometabolic vulnerability were found in middle-aged women and more frequently in those with a history of preeclampsia.