Factores de riesgo cardiovascular y relación con actividad física en docentes de la Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ibarra. 2017.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to assess cardiovascular risk and relate to the level of physical activity in teachers of the Universidad Técnica del Norte. It is a non-experimental, correlational and cross-sectional study, 137 teachers from five faculties were evaluated, the cardiovascular risk was assessed with the classic Framingham test that considers age by gender, HDL cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, smoking habit, diabetes by gender and left ventricular hyperoperty. physical activity was evaluated by the calculation of Physical Activity Measure (METs) per week, waist circumference was also measured and the body mass index (BMI) was determined. The data was processed in IBM SPSS version 23 and EPIINFO packages. It was found that more than half of teachers had high prevalences of cardiovascular risk factors such as sedentary lifestyle, overweight, and obesity, abdominal obesity, triglycerides and cabbage, increased total sterol and decreased HDL cholesterol, smoking and blood pressure. presented in smaller proportion. In addition, it was found that the highest cardiovascular risk score in both genders is given by age. There were no teachers with high cardiovascular risk and they had <15% probability of suffering a cardiovascular event in 10 years, the female gender was the most affected. It was confirmed that there is a statistically significant relationship (p <0.05) between physical activity (METs) and cardiovascular risk according to Framingham, the value of triglycerides and the Body Mass Index. There was an important relationship between physical activity and cardiovascular risk in the teachers of the UTN.