title: [Relationship between ignorance of own weight and cardiovascular risk in primary care].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate what health-care users know about their own weight, the distribution of body fat and the relationship of their level of knowledge with cardiovascular risk factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive cross-sectional study.Setting. Urban health centre.
  
  
  METHODS
  240 patients between 15 and 69, chosen by consecutive sampling.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey, analysis (n=100), body measurements and sphygmomanometry were done.
  
  
  RESULTS
  80.8% of users knew their weight to over-95% accuracy. The biggest errors were found in older patients and in women. There was great prevalence of male-style obesity (71.3%), even among women. The population with greatest errors in knowing their own weight were at greater cardiovascular risk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In elderly people, age and sex condition the Body Mass Index and their ignorance of their own weight. There is a relationship between this variable and cardiovascular risk factors. This relationship supports the taking of individual-specific health education measures on obesity in primary care.
authors.affiliation: Especialistas en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Centro de Salud Balafia-Pardinyes-Secà. Area Básica de Lleida. Institut Català de la Salut. Lleida. España. alafarga@comll.es
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lafarga Giribets
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monfort Cabané
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sánchez Pellicer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Batlle Farran
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001835:Body Weight; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012307:Risk Factors