| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: to verify associations between overweight and the characteristics of young adultstudents to support nursing care. METHOD: case-control study conducted with young adults from public schools. The samplewas composed of 441 participants (147 cases and 294 controls, with and withoutexcess weight, respectively). Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics werecollected together with exposure factors and anthropometrics. Multiple logisticregression was used. The study received Institutional Review Board approval. RESULTS: statistically significant association with overweight: non-Caucasian, having apartner; weight gain during adolescence, mother''s excess weight, the use ofobesogenic medication, augmented diastolic blood pressure, of abdominalcircumference and waist/hip ratio. In addition to these, schooling and weight gainduring childhood were also included in the multivariate analysis. Afteradjustment, the final model included: having a partner, weight gain duringadolescence, augmented diastolic blood pressure and abdominal circumference. CONCLUSION: the analysis of predictor variables for excess weight among young adult studentssupports nurses in planning and developing educational practices aimed to preventthis clinical condition, which is a risk factor for other chronic comorbidities,such as cardiovascular diseases. |
