Abstract

NUNEZ GARCIA, Mirta V. et al. Atherogenic risk factors in the population aged 19-39 years from two family physician´ offices. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2007, vol.26, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3011.

A cross-sectional descriptive research study was made in two family physician offices from "Héroes del Moncada" polyclinics in which 98 young adults of a total number of 980 that constituted the 19-39 years from these two offices. Through survey administered to patients, variables like weight and sizes could be set in order to create a body mass index. Blood pressure was taken three times to estimate average blood pressure, which was classified according to JNC-VII-2001 as normal or prehypertensive whereas hypertension was classified as mild, moderate and severe. Blood samples served to determine serum cholesterol, triglycerides and high density lipids. Smoking was also taken into consideration. The corresponding variables were given as percentages. The number of risk factors and their association was analyzed in each patient. The most relevant factors were 58,3% of cases with overweight or obesity, half of hypertensive persons were newly detected cases, 51% of the population was active smokers. Hypertriglyceridemia was the most common dislipidemia accounting for 37,8% and high atherogenic index was observed in 30,85% of cases.

Keywords : Risk factors; blood hypertension; atherogenic index.