title: [Life style, family history and personal pathology in relation to arterial hypertension in students of the Medical Faculty of UNAM].
abstract: Arterial hypertension (HA) is a public health problem, 15 to 30% of adults in our country suffer it. There are different facts that influence its outcome. Among young people the main factors are: alcoholism, smoking tobacco, overweight, diabetes, family history, sedentarism and psychological aspects. The main object of this study, was to detect the risk factor for the development of HA in the students of the University. For this search 489 sophomore students class at the Medical School of the University of Mexico (UNAM), between 17 and 24 years old, were studied. Our results showed that positive family history was more prevalent among females. Among males life-style factors were more significant, the main factor was sedentarism, whereas lesser factor was overweight. The prevalence of HA was higher for diastolic hypertension than for systolic. We concluded there are many risk factors that influence the development of HA, which are distributed in a different way according to gender preventive measures are recommended.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiología y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, UNAM, México, D.F.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Güemez Sandoval
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moreno Altamirano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuri Morales
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Argote Roumagnere
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alba Leonel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Méndez Vargas
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ramos Velázquez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013337:Students, Medical
vernacular_title: Estilo de vida y antecedentes familiares y personales patológicos relacionados con hipertension arterial en estudiantes de la Facultad de Medicina de la U.N.A.M.