Relación entre el estilo de vida y el nivel de riesgo cardiovascular en personal docente y administrativo de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja en el periodo 2018-2019

Abstract

Abstract: Faced with this problem, this research arises, which aims to determine the relationship between lifestyle and cardiovascular risk level of teaching and administrative staff.The research is of an observational descriptive type; applying survey-type instruments such as: STEP, IPAQ, and, taking anthropometric measurements. A sample was taken from the population older than 40 years, (166).The results show that 56% have a low level prevalence of cardiovascular risk, moderate physical activity stands out in 80.7%, 97% and 88.8% have an inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables, respectively; 96.4% maintain a harmful consumption of alcohol. In addition, statistical tests (chi-square) were found to show that, in the population studied, there is no relationship between lifestyle habits and the level of cardiovascular risk (p => 0.05), except in harmful tobacco use. with p = 0.001; which allows us to deduce that the eating and physical activity habits of teachers and administrators must be changed.