ABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: Generally, a student changes lifestyle when enters to the University, this can lead to different alimentary habits that could become as risk factors of nontransmissible chronic diseases (NTCD). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the presence of risk factors of NTCD in students of medicine race in Carabobo University. METHODOLOGY: 120 people were evaluated, students of third to the sixth year of the medicine race, Carabobo University, year 2006. Family records, nutritional habits, alcohol and tobacco consumption were studied. Anthropometric measures, arterial pressure, glycemia and lipids sérics, were determined. RESULTS: Of evaluated students 68 they belonged to feminine sex and 52 masculine, age between 18 and 26 years old. The risk factor more frequent was the sedentary (72.49%), followed of alcoholic habits (68.3%) and smoking tobacco (34.16%). A 37.5% had high consumption of oils and fats, 58.3% starches and sugars. A 33.34% was overweight or obesity; 3.33% with high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome. The family antecedent predominant was high blood pressure (60%) and obesity (28.2%). CONCLUSION: In this student population risk factors for NTCD exist, which alerts on the necessity to restore plans of education and measures of primary prevention in order to diminish to future the appearance of NTCD in the students of the medicine race in Carabobo University.
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Alcoholism/epidemiology , Overweight/epidemiology , Smoking/epidemiology , Students , Adolescent , Adult , Chronic Disease , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Male , Risk Factors , Universities , VenezuelaABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: Overweight and obesity represent an important public health problem in the world, including developed and underdeveloped countries, as contributing factors for non transmissible chronic illnesses in the adult, affecting both sexes, but especially to women. OBJECTIVE: To associate excess in weight to the presence of comorbidities in adult women. METHODOLOGY: 130 women, age 25 to 70 years with body mass index (BMI) > 25 kg/m(2) were assessed. Weight, height, arm, waist and hip circumferences, tricipital and subescapular skinfolds. BMI, waist/hip ratio (W/H ratio) and fatty area were determined. Presence of diabetes mellitus (DM); high blood pressure (HBP), dyslipidemia and arthropathy were assessed. Overweight and obesity were classified according to OMS criteria. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 11.0. RESULTS: 24,6% of women (n = 32) were overweight; 38,5% (n = 50) were obese I; 23,8% (n = 31) were obese II; and 13,1% (n = 17) had obesity III. Associated pathologies were present in 80,8% of the studied women: 46,9% (n = 61) with dyslipidemia; 42,3% (n = 55) with HBP; 33,1% (n = 43) with arthropaties; and 16,2% (n = 21) with DM. Overweight and obese I women showed a higher prevalence of dyslipidemia (56%) and (52%), respectively; while in Obese II and Obese III, 38,7% and 47,1% presented HBP respectively. There was a positive correlation (Spearman) among DM, HBP and dyslipidemia (p < 0,05) with age; and significant correlation (Pearson, p < 0,05) between W/H ratio and DM. CONCLUSION: There was a high prevalence of associated pathologies in the valued women, being the most frequent dyslipidemia, HBP and arthropathy, which are directly proportional with the age and the IC/C.
