title: [Lipid profile and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in medicine students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the lipid profile and its correlation with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among medicine students.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed 153 students, regardless of sex, with age between 18 and 31 years old, submitted to lipid profile analysis, including serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), fraction of cholesterol of low (LDLc), high (HDLc) and very low density (VLDLc) lipoproteins and triglycerides (TG), besides of life habits and anthropometric data. Statistic analysis was employed, including the test of Mann Whitney, chi-square test, Pearson's correlation and multivariate analysis, by adopting a significance level for a value of p<0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sedentary lifestyle (43.1%) and familial history for CVD, particularly hypertension (74.5%), were distinguished. The lipid profile showed desirable, although altered levels of TC, LDLc and TG were detected in 11.8%, 9.8% and 8.5% from the students, respectively, and reduced levels of HDLc in 12.4% of them. Women showed significantly reduced values for LDLc and high values for HDLc compared to men's (p=0.031 and p<0.0001, respectively). There was a significant association between lipid profile and, preferably, body mass index (BMI), sedentary lifestyle, ingestion of alcohol, contraceptive use, familial antecedents of cerebrovascular accident and dyslipidemia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Familial history for CVD, sedentary lifestyle and contraceptive use among medicine students showed frequent and associated to the lipid profile, as well as ingestion of alcohol and BMI. Although with desirable lipid profile, regardless of sex, higher levels of LDLc and reduced levels of HDLc in male sex provide a disadvantage to men compared to women.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP.
authors.forename: Vanessa Gregorin
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.forename: Loeni Fátima
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Caetano
authors.forename: Raphael Del Roio
authors.initials: Rdel R
authors.lastname: Liberatore Júnior
authors.forename: José Antônio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cordeiro
authors.forename: Dorotéia Rossi Silva
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Souza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013337:Students, Medical; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL; D008055:Lipids; D014280:Triglycerides