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Item Atención integral de Salud a mujeres adultas con malnutrición por exceso. centro de salud la Vicentina, Tungurahua, 2016(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud-Dirección de Posgrado, 2016-11-01) Martínez Muñoz, Carmita Geomara Dra.; Díaz Curbelo Dra. Esp.,AliuchaIntroduction: Obesity is a chronic disease of multifactorial etiology. Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted - transversal with the aim of characterizing the comprehensive health care that adult women receive with overweight who were treated at the Health Center La Vicentina, canton Ambato, Tungurahua province, 2016. The sample consisted of 94 adult women aged 20 to 64 who presented excess malnutrition and stratified randomly selected. Results and Discussion: 52.12% are overweight patients and 34.04% belong to the group of 20-39 years. The 48.94% are married women, 60.63% are women with secondary school level, the mestizo self-identification with 88.30%, 11.70% showed adequate medical care and inadequate with 88.30%, being groups with 44.66% overweight and obese women with grade 1 with 24.46% which bring the big number of cases with inadequate monitoring. Conclusions and Recommendations: It is concluded that the highest prevalence of excess malnutrition was in overweight women and in the group of 20-39 years. Comprehensive medical care received in most women with excess malnutrition, studied, was inadequate. The guide comprehensive care proposal will favor the monitoring, control and evolution of these patients.