Prevalencia de casos de síndrome metabólico y análisis de factores de riesgo cardiovascular para profesores de las Unidades Educativas del cantón Sucúa Enero-Diciembre 2016.

Abstract

The purpose of this work was determine the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and its cardiovascular risk factors in the teachers of the Educational Units in Sucúa. For this a descriptive and transversal studio was used, which universe was constituted by 200 teachers, of which a sample of 70 was selected. The collecting data methodology that was used was the interview and a survey about cardiovascular risk factors (Framingham tables) and a formulary which included socio demographic variables. The data analysis was developed through the IBM SPSS programme version 23, of which of a total of 70 studied teachers the 44,3% presented MS, the 74,3% had low cardiovascular risk, followed for the 22,9% with moderate risk and 2,9% high risk. On the other hand, the 91, 4% informed to be sedentary and the 74, 3% referred the smoking habit. It was found that the cardiovascular risk is associated to the sedentary lifestyle. It is concluded that the MS has a high prevalence within the surveyed teachers and that this results must be taken into account to implement prevention measures to this pathology, through education campaigns concerning to the good nutrition, increasing of the making physical activity and termination of harmful psychobiologic habits as is the case of smoking.