Relação entre o consumo de alimentos com ação antiinflamatória e marcadores inflamatórios em idosos com sobrepeso e obesidade.

Abstract

Obesity is an inflammatory disease that affects all age groups and is considered one of the biggest public health problems in the world. Aging is associated with the accumulation of a wide variety of molecular and cellular damage at the biological level. The inflammatory response of obesity leads not only to elevated pro-inflammatory adipokine expression but also to the reduction of adipokines with anti-inflammatory properties. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the consumption of foods with antiinflammatory action and the values of C-Reactive Protein and leukocytes. The present study has a cross-sectional and epidemiological characteristic, and has inclusion comocriteria individuals whose age is greater than 60 years of different (P-value = 0.0037) and Leukocytes (P-value = 0.0000), and the correlation between the usual arginine consumption and CRP (pvalue = 0.0037) was analyzed. (P = 0.0000) and Leukocytes (p = 0.0000), and between habitual consumption of omega-6 and CRP (p = 0.0004) and Leukocytes (p = 0.0000). Therefore, the data obtained through this study demonstrate the relationship between Arginine, omega 3 and omega 6 intake and inflammatory markers, PCR and Leukocytes, thus showing the importance of the consumption of these nutrients in the inflammatory process in the elderly with overweight and obesity.