2015, Number 2
Risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in adolescents
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 140-155
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: children and adolescents adopt lifestyles that may lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases when they become adults and other potentially harmful factors have also been added.Objective: to determine the presence of risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in adolescent students.
Methods: observational, analytical and cross-sectional study of 259 adolescents from an urban junior high school located in Mayabeque province, which was conducted in the period of 2011 and 2012. The participants met the inclusion criteria. The study variables were sex, age, nutritional assessment, blood pressure, dietary habits, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and also cholesterol and triglyceride levels that were only measured in those overweighed, obese, hypertensive or having a family history of hyperlipidemia.
Results: the most significant family pathological history was smoking found in 43.8 % of students. In the study group, 2.7 % showed high blood pressure, 6.9% had been low birthweight babies and 13.1 % rated as overweighed or obese, with significant association between overweigh and blood hypertension. The dietary habits were found inadequate in 94.5 % of them and they were also related to overweigh and obesity. The triglyceride test of 13 % of the studied adolescents showed high figures.
Conclusions: the identified risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in adolescent teenagers were family history of smoking, blood hypertension and obesity, risky dietary habits, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, overweigh and obesity.
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