RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN STUDENTS

Abstract

Hypertension being the author of millions of annual deaths. It has a heterogeneous origin; involving risk factors, modifiable and nonmodifiable. Objectives Identify the risk factors associated to hypertension in students from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras en el Valle de Sula (UNAH-VS) in the second and third trimester of 2018. Patients and methodology: A quantitative, case and controls study with a 1:1 ratio in the Health department from the Sub direction of Culture, Arts, Sports and Student Development of the UNAH-VS. Using a non-probabilistic due to convenience sampling method, a 34 student case group, previously diagnosed with hypertension and a 34 control group who do not suffer hypertension. Results 24 (35.29%) patients were men. The risk factors with a strong association to the disease were the family – 11.2), obesity (OR: 5.1 IC: 95%, 1.6 – 16.5), sedentary life (OR: 4.8 IC: 95%, 1.6 – 14.2), unhealthy diet (OR: 7.6 IC: 95%, 1.5 – 37.8), hypertriglyceridemia (OR: 5.2 IC: 95%, 1.7 – 15.9) and hypercholesterolemia (OR: 7.3 IC: 95%, 2.2 – 23.5). Conclusions In the non-modifiable risk factors the first history of hypertension family history with hypertension was the most important. In the modifiable risk factors, those that were strongly related to cardiovascular risk predo- minated.