Avaliação nos fatores de risco de doenças cardiovasculares em alunos e funcionários da UEA: Escola Normal Superior

Abstract

An assessment of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases on a group of students and employees at a public university in the city of Manaus - AM. Factors such as blood glucose, BMI, blood pressure, family history and physical activity were analyzed. Anthropometric measurements were made with all research participants, where students from the Biological Sciences course and employees of the Escola Normal Superior unit were selected, who filled out a questionnaire with age, sex and habits. 103 volunteers participated, being 93 students with an average age of 23 years and 10 employees with an average age of 43 years. The consumption of alcohol consumption, overweight, obesity and the pandemic were pointed out as factors that strongly influenced the variation of the items surveyed, in addition to unhealthy lifestyle and habits. The study serves as an alert for the factors that may trigger cardiovascular diseases in the future in UEA students and staff. Keywords: risk factors, cardiovascular diseases, lifestyle, pandemic.