Overweight and obesity and associated factors in adults in a poor urban area of Northeastern Brazil

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The changes that occurred in the health/disease process, especially in the field of nutrition, corroborate the replacement of nutritional deficiencies with the pandemic emergency of overweight (overweight/obesity). Objective: To analyze the prevalence and factors associated with overweight in adults living in a poor urban area in Recife, Northeast Brazil. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of 644 adults aged 20-59 years. Possible associations of overweight with demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral and morbidity factors were analyzed through Poisson Regression, considering as statistically significant those with p