Introduction:

Investigations aimed at identifying atherogenic risk factors in children and adolescents show that diseases, as a consequence of atherosclerosis in adults, are generated from an early age of life.

Objective:

To identify early atherogenic signs in adolescents.

Method:

An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out, which included 298 adolescents from 11 to 16 years of age. The variables overweight-obesity, arterial hypertension, smoking, physical inactivity and inadequate diet were identified.

Results:

20.5% of adolescents were prehypertensive and 2.3% hypertensive. 40.3% had changes in body weight and 44.3% had abdominal obesity. The most representative early atherogenic sign, related to lifestyles, was light physical activity in 36.6%.

Conclusions:

The early atherogenic signs most frequently identified are abdominal obesity, overweight and sedentary lifestyle, in this order.

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