Introduction: Hospitalized patients require alternative nutritional assessment methods. Objective: To evaluate the concordance between predictive equations for body weight estimation and their use in determining body mass index in hospitalized men and women. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in the university hospital. Estimated weight was calculated by using the predictive equations proposed by Chumlea et al., 1988 andRabito et al., 2006. Actual nutritional diagnosis was obtained through the body mass index determined from the actual weight and the estimated weight. The agreement between the measurements was assessed by the intraclass correlation coefficient and the Bland Altman analysis. It adopted the significance level of p < 0.05. Results: There were differences in women between the actual weight and the weight estimated with the equation by Chumlea et al. (p = 0.00); the same differences were found between actual body mass index and estimated body mass index (p = 0.00). The linear regression coefficient between actual weight and estimated weight, as calculated with the equation by the Rabito et al., was 0.44 (p = 0.00) in men and 0.18 (p = 0.03) in women. Similar results were found between the actual body mass index and the weight estimated with the equation by Rabito et al. in women (0.19; p = 0.02). There was excellent agreement between the actual weight and the estimated weight, and in the determination of body mass index. Conclusion: The weights calculated with the predictive equations compared to the actual weights show excellent agreement and low variability; the same is true for body mass index, hence indicating the use of both equations as an alternative, when real measurement is not possible.

many environmental factors, including food availability, the ability to purchase and preparation of food and the numerous advertisements of products [6]. Then, the option of analyzing eating patterns can provide better benefits in proposing effective measures to promote health through food, which is the focus of nutritional epidemiology [7].Then, the aim of the study was to describe dietary patterns of the olders and associate with central and abdominal obesity as well as with the macronutrient intake. MethodologyThen, in the year of 2011, a cross-sectional study was carried out in Botucatu city, São Paulo, Brazil, in which anthropometric measures were obtained and a sociodemographic and a validated frequency food questionnaire (FFQ) were applied in a representative sample 355 older people. The sample size was calculating based on the number of items in the FFQ (71 food items). Following the recommendation of this sort of research, we considered five subjects for each item, totalizing the mentioned sample size. Results and discussionResults showed that 15.95% of men and 30.20% of female had general obesity and 42.94% of men and 74.47% of females had central obesity elderly. The highest prevalence regarding morbidities was hypertension (55.92%), triglycerides (38.49%) and diabetes mellitus (20.72%). Major of them are married (60.6%) and retired (75%). The

Variaciones en el estado nutricional y su refl ejo en la composición corporal en mujeres chilenas con síndrome metabólico Changes in nutritional status and its refl ection in body composition in Chilean women with metabolic syndrome