title: [Cardiovascular risk factor prevalence in university students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Determining cardiovascular risk factor prevalence in university students from Medellin.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive study of 112 students determined their lipid profile and a survey was conducted to assess their life-style and family history. There results were analyzed by gender using Chi² test and simple binary logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  82.1 % of the sample was female. A modifiable risk factor was found for at least 99.1 % of the study population: sedentary life-style (79.5 %), smoking (17 %), alcohol consumption (75.0 %), atherogenic diet (78.6 %), hypertension (1.8 %), some form of dyslipidemia (48.3 % BMI >25 (4.5 %)) and stress (86.7 %). At least one non-modifiable risk factor was identified in 77.7 % of the students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  New intervention strategies are needed given the significant percentage of the target population ± 19 mean age having cardiovascular disease risk factors and young people must be encouraged to develop healthy life-styles to reduce cardiovascular risk factor prevalence.
authors.affiliation: Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Colombia, maria.garcia@colmayor.edu.co.
authors.forename: María H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: García-Gulfo
authors.affiliation: Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Colombia, maria.garcia@colmayor.edu.co.
authors.forename: Jerson A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García-Zea
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000886:Anthropometry; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003105:Colombia / Q000453:epidemiology; D004036:Diet, Atherogenic; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D008019:Life Style; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids