Introduction:

Atherosclerosis is a complex disease, as old as man, whom it accompanies from conception to death.

Objective:

To describe the behavior of risk factors for atherosclerosis.

Method:

A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during the period 2016 to 2019.

Results:

The predominant risk factors were the diagnosis of hypertension, 348 for 44.9 % and the diagnosis of dyslipidemia over one year in 247 for 89.2 %. hypertension has the highest risk associated with overweight / obesity, sedentary lifestyle, altered waist circumference, altered waist-to-height index, family history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease. Dyslipidemia has the highest risk associated with overweight / obesity, altered waist circumference, altered waist-height index, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, a family history of dyslipidemia and with peripheral arterial and chronic kidney disease.

Conclusions:

The diagnosis of hypertension and the diagnosis of dyslipidemia of more than one year predominated. Hypertension and dyslipidemia presented a high risk associated with most of the risk factors and diseases resulting from atherosclerosis studied.

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