Prevalência de hipertensão arterial sistêmica e fatores associados entre universitários

Abstract

When joining the university, the student goes through several changes in his lifestyle that may favor the appearance of one or several risk factors for arterial hypertension and other chronic diseases. Objective: Analyze the prevalence of systemic hypertension and the associated factors among university students. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study that analyzed data from university students of a Public University of Cuiabá-MT, who entered the academic years of 2015 and 2016, aged between 16 and 25 years. Blood pressure was measured using the oscillometric method, using an automatic device, on the left arm. Three blood pressure measurements were taken with an interval of 2 minutes. They were considered to be hypertensive the participants they had › 18 years who presented systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmhg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmhg and those who had ‹ 18 years were considered hypertension when PAS and/or PAD was higher than the percentile (p) 95, according to age, sex and high percentile. The chi-square test was used to evaluate the association of hypertension with the other variable age, race / color, who resides and economy class. Results: The prevalence of hypertension was 13.04%, which was higher among men (21.74% vs 3.95%, p <0.01) and among individuals who were overweight (24 , 79% vs. 9.46%, p <0.01)Conclusion: Statistical significance of the variables gender and weight condition was observed, with systemic arterial hypertension among university students.