Objective: To determine cardiovascular risk and its relationship with the lifestyle of students from theFaculty of Health Sciences of a Private University in Lima, 2017. Materials and methods: It was aquantitative, descriptive, correlational and transversal study, in which 183 students selected by nonprobabilisticsampling participated. There were applied the “Healthy lifestyle” and an anthropometricdata sheet. Results: From the sample population, 67.3% are women and 100% are single, 85.2%are aged between 18 and 23 years and 49.2% are from the coast. According to the labor condition,77.6% are dependent and 50.3% are in fourth year. In the lifestyle dimension, it was found that 48.6%keep an unhealthy physical and sport condition. Also, 50.8% are healthy in recreation and free timemanagement. 85.8% are very healthy in drug, alcohol and tobacco consumption. 66.1% are healthy inthe dream ...