Romero VLC, Ramírez CJB

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: The Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is considered the main public health issue in Mexico. Young people enrolling the university are exposed to unhealthy lifestyles, risking developing the syndrome’s symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To determine the MS prevalence and associated predisponent factors on recently enrolled technical area students. METHOD: Cross-sectional, descriptive study of a random sample of students of the technical area, both genders. It was determined: circumference of waist, arterial pressure, glucose, triglycerides, c-HDL and BMI; they were applied to the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel III of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP ATPIII) to diagnose MS. A questionnaire on associated predisponent factors was applied to them. Numerical measures of summary, tables of frequency and Confidence interval of 95% for the calculation of prevalence were used. RESULTS: From a total of 1,198 students, a sample of 144 was collected (33 women, 111 men) whose age average was of 18.31 ± 0.7 years. The anthropometric measurements, sanguineous samples, as well as arterial tension were taken. The global prevalence of MS was of 2,8%. The percentage of students in high risk for MS was of 34%. The greater risk was for women presenting a 43, 75%. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of MS in the technical area students, who recently enrolled Universidad Veracruzana, was of 2,8%.

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