Determinar si la edad, el sexo, el estado civil, la actividad laboral, tener carga familiar, el ciclo de estudio y el lugar de residencia son factores asociados a un estilo de vida no adecuado en alumnos de la escuela de Medicina en la Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego. Material y método: Se llevó a cabo un estudio observacional, transversal y analítico en 258 estudiantes de Medicina Humana de la Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego que cursan entre el 1º - 12º ciclo del presente año, utilizando la encuesta FANTASTICO. Se realizó la prueba chi cuadrado para las variables donde fueron consideradas significativas si p < 0,05 y razón de prevalencia (RP) con un intervalo de confianza al 95% para determinar grado de asociación. Resultados: De los 258 alumnos, 146 (56,6%) tuvieron estilos de vida adecuados y 112 (43,4%) mostraron estilos de vida no adecuados. No se encontró asociació...

Introduction: The inappropriate lifestyle (IL) increases the risk of non-communicable diseases; undergraduate university students are a susceptible population to present an IL. Objectives: To determine if age, sex, marital status, work activity, family responsibilities, study cycle and place of residence were factors associated with an inappropriate lifestyle (IL) in medical students. Secondarily, the dimensions most frequently associated with IL were identified. Methods: A cross-sectional, and analytical study was carried out on students from the School of Human Medicine of the Antenor Orrego Private University of Trujillo in Peru, during the first semester of 2023, using the FANTASTICO anonymous survey, an instrument that has 10 dimensions. Surveys that were not answered in their entirety were excluded. The prevalence of predetermined risk factors was compared between students with IAL...