Alternativa metodológica para el tratamiento de los factores de riesgo de la enfermedad vascular aterosclerótica

Abstract

A transversal and descriptive study was carried out, using as asample 90 patients from the “Pedro Diaz Coello” polyclinic in Holguin, aged 20 to 51 and more years, in the period of january 2006 and may 2007 with the objetive of identifyingthe main elements of risks 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%), and hypertension 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 smoke more saturated facts ingestion (7,8%). With these results it was recomended to desing a health program that allows to salve these problems in a medium and long period of time in the studied patients.