Abstract

CANDIA-GALEANO, Tamara Yasmin; GALEANO-CENTURION, Jessica Belén  and  ARIA-ZAYA, Laura Silvana. Cardiovascular risk factors in resident doctors of the National Hospital of Itauguá. Rev. cient. cienc. salud [online]. 2024, vol.6, e0146.  Epub Aug 28, 2024. ISSN 2664-2891.  https://doi.org/10.53732/rccsalud/2024.e6146.

Introduction. Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death worldwide. Among the multiple risk factors, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, smoking, among others, are found. Objective. Determine the frequency of cardiovascular risk factors in resident doctors of the Hospital Nacional de Itauguá. Materials and method. Cross-sectional descriptive observational study. Resident doctors at the National Hospital of Itauguá in the year 2024 were included. Sociodemographic variables, anthropometric measurements and cardiovascular risk factors were measured through a questionnaire. Results. 113 residents participated in the study, with an average age of 26.9 ± 2.2 years, 62.83% were women, the predominant marital status was single with 92.92%, 36.28% were in their first year of residency, the most common specialty was internal medicine (24.77%). The most frequent cardiovascular risk was family history (78.76%), followed by physical inactivity (67.25%), overweight/obesity was reported in 47.78%, smoking in 23.01%, dyslipidemia in 7.07% and hypertension in 0.88%. Conclusion. Resident doctors have a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, especially family history and physical inactivity. Overweight and obesity were also common, however, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia were less frequent.

Keywords : heart disease risk factors; heart rate; physicians.

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