Cardiovascular risk and its relationship with the lifestyle in students of the faculty of health sciences of a private university in Lima, 2017

• Autores: Tania Zhunaula Guamán, Charo Nátali Huzco Rutti
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revista UPEU - Revista Científica de Ciencias de la Salud
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.upeu.edu.pe:article/744
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/RCCS/article/view/744
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Cardiovascular risk, lifestyle, correlation; Riesgo cardiovascular, estilo de vida, correlación.

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 dimension and 56.3% remain healthy in eating habits. 55.7% are unhealthy in self-care andmedical care. It was not found a statistically significant relationship between CVR and healthy lifestyle(p=0.234). Eating habits have a statistically significant relationship with CVR (p=0.012). Conclussion:We conclude that 82% of the students are healthy and 54% presented a moderate cardiovascular risk.It was not found a statistically significant correlation between CVR and lifestyle (p=0.234), neverthelessit was found a correlation between CVR and eating habits (p=0.012).