IJCS | Volume 32, Nº2, March/April 2019

146 Table 1 - Biodemographic, clinical, anthropometric and body composition characteristics of patients with HF Variables n = 60 n (%) Sex Male 42 (70) Female 18 (30) Comorbidities Arterial hypertension 43 (71.7) Diabetes mellitus 18 (30) Chronic kidney disease under conservative treatment 11 (18.3) Dyslipidemia Hypercholesterolemia 3 (5) Hypertriglyceridemia 18 (30) Mixed hypertriglyceridemia 2 (3.3) Low HDL-c 52 (86.7) Smoking Smoker 5 (8.3) Non-smoker 31 (51.7) Former smoker 24 (40) Medications ARA/ACEI 56 (93.3) Diuretics 49 (81.7) Beta-blocker 57 (95) Vasodilator 14 (23.3) Digoxin 14 (23.3) Antiplatelet agent 29 (48.3) Functional class I 46 (76.7) II 10 (16.7) III and IV 4 (6.6) LVEF HFrEF 36 (60) HFiEF 12 (20) HFpEF 12 (20) HF etiology Ischemic 27 (45) Non-ischemic 33 (55) Hypertensive 10 (30) Chagas’ disease 3 (9) Alcoholic 4 (12) Rheumatic 1 (3) Peripartum 2 (6) To be clarified 13 (39) Anthropometric indicators Md (SD) Height (m) 1.63 (0.9) Weight (kg) 71.1 (15) BMI (kg/m²) 26.7 (4.7) AMC (cm) 23.8 (3.6) cAMA (cm 2 ) 38.2 (13.4) APMT (mm) 20.3 (5) TST (mm) 20.4 (8.6) Body composition Md (SD) FM (kg) 20.8 (7.2) FFM (kg) 52 (11.9) %TBW 52.6 (5.5) TBW (L) 38.4 (9.7) ICW (L) 20.5 (5.6) ECW (L) 17.9 (3.5) ARA/ACEI: Angiotensin receptor antagonist/angiotensinogen converting enzyme inhibitor; LVEF: Ventricular ejection fraction; HFrEF: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; HFiEF: Heart failure of intermediate ejection fraction; HFpEF: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction); BMI: Body mass index; AMC: Arm muscle circumference; cAMA: Corrected arm muscle area; APMT: Adductor pollicis muscle thickness; TST: Triceps skinfold thickness; FM: Fat mass; FFM: Fat free mass; TBW: Total body water/Weight; ICW: Intracellular water; ECW: Extracellular water. Rocha et al. Nutritional assessment in heart failure Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2019;32(2)143-151 Original Article study, a higher frequency of arterial hypertension was observed, as found in other studies that also identified higher frequencies of this comorbidity, in addition to diabetes mellitus. 23 One fact that caught our attention was that more than half of the participants had reduced ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF), but from a clinical point of view, they