Factores de riesgo de la enfermedad vascular aterosclerótica. Didáctica aplicada

Abstract

A transversal and descriptive study was carried out, using as asample 90 patients from the “Pedro Díaz Coello” Policlinyc in Holguín, age 20 to 51 and more years, in the periodo of january 2006 and may 2007 with the objetive of identifying the main elements of risk factors of atherosclerotic vascular desease. The majority of patients were male (83,3 %) and the group of aged were between 41 and 50 years (38 cases for a 42,2%). The risk factors frequetly found were the smoking habit (36,6%), laziness (19%), andhypertension with a 15,6%. It was demostrated that the association more laziness (17,8%), addiction to smoked more hypertetion (14,4%) laziness 8,9%, addiction to smoked more saturated facuss ingestión (7,8%). With these results it was recomedd to desing a elath program that alloows tos ave these problems in a medium and long periodo of time in the studied patients and one didactic orientation.