in 2017. A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed in a sample of 361 students, with an average age of 21 (16-40) years. A sociodemographic survey was conducted, and blood samples and lipid profiles were obtained. The participants were predominantly female (77%), single (92.5%), and young adults (62.3%) and with an average socioeconomic level (55.1%). The overall prevalence of hyperlipidemia was 33.8%, with the following risk values: triglyceride (TG), 12.8%; hypercholesterolemia, 16.1%; high density lipoprotein cholesterol (cHDL), 15.0%; and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (cLDL), 42.2%. Using the theory of the logistic regression models and chi-square likelihood ratio tests, the factors that were significantly associated with the risk of hyperlipidemia were male sex and consumption of alcoholic beverages (P-value < 0.05). In the two-way ANOVA, it was observed that the interaction of these two factors for TG was significant (P-value < 0.05), being higher in men who consume intoxicating beverages (Tukey's test, P value <0.05). Regarding cHDL and cLDL, only sex presented a significant effect on their values (P-value < 0.05), while for total cholesterol, none was significant (P-value > 0.05). The results obtained indicate the importance of early detection of blood lipid levels in young people to prevent the early development of noncommunicable diseases.
The various activities that university students face generate stress and variation in healthy habits, producing alterations such as an increase in blood lipids, a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between academic stress and dyslipidemia in students of the Faculty of Health of the Santiago de Cali University, Colombia. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out with simple random sampling. The sample was of 212 students, average age of 21 years, range between 16 and 40; from which a blood sample was extracted to quantify lipid levels. Likewise, the General Stress Appreciation Scale was applied. The statistical analysis was carried out with the R program version 3.5.1. Among the results, 26.4% of the population presents stress levels between medium, high and very high, being related to HDL-C> 40. There were no changes in cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL-C with stress. It is concluded that there is a low relationship between academic stress and lipid alteration, however, at low levels of stress, HDL-C was normal.
La preocupación por estas alteraciones en el estilo de vida ha llevado a los entes responsables del bienestar biopsicosocial de la población, a generar estrategias en los diferentes campos del desarrollo humano, siendo una de las prioridades las instituciones educativas, como las universidades. Para esto, los lineamientos nacionales dados por el Ministerio de Salud buscan promover entornos saludables, debido a que los estudiantes universitarios son considerados la población adulto joven clave, para la promoción y prevención de la salud para las futuras generaciones.
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