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Blood pressure levels and their association with cardiovascular risk factors among employees of the University of Brasília, a Brazilian public university

Tatiana Valverde da Conceição et al. Fabiano Alves Gomes Pedro Luiz Tauil Tânia Torres Rosa

OBJECTIVE: To verify and classify, according to the JNC 7, the blood pressure levels (BPL) of the employees of University of Brasilia, a public university in Brazil, who are older than 40 years of age, and to estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in this population. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Brasilia, with employees over 40 years of age. They answered a questionnaire and had their blood pressure, weight and height measured. The BPLs were classified according to the JNC 7 classification and the demographic data of the subjects in each category were analyzed. The percentage of risk factors was calculated. The statistical analysis was carried out using the ANOVA test and the chi-square test, where applicable. RESULTS: Seven hundred and four subjects participated in the study, 438 male and 266 female. The median age was 47. According to the JNC 7, 139 (19.8%) subjects were classified as normotensive; 298 (42.3%) as prehypertensive and 267 (37.9%) as hypertensive. The risk factors assessed were overweight/obesity (56.8%), smoking habit (19.5%), alcohol consumption (53.6%), sedentary lifestyle (48.4%) and hypertension (37.9%). CONCLUSION: The high frequency of elevated blood pressure levels and cardiovascular risk factors among the employees indicates the need for preventive and therapeutic measures for cardiovascular disease targeted at the university’s employees.

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Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in child and adolescent students in the city of Maceió

Maria Alayde Mendonça da Silva et al. Ivan Romero Rivera Maria Roseane Mendonça Tenório Ferraz Aluísio José Tavares Pinheiro … Sheyla Waleska dos Santos Alves Adriana Ávila Moura Antonio Carlos Camargo Carvalho

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), “risk of overweight,” overweight, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking in children and adolescents from 7 to 17 years of age, of both sexes, in public and private schools in the city of Maceió, in the state of Alagoas. METHODS: A cross-sectional epidemiological study with sampling from a population pool was carried out. It comprised elementary and middle schools, randomly selected. The sample was calculated based on the expected lower prevalence of the variables studied. The assessment protocol comprised a structured questionnaire, anthropometry, and blood pressure measurements. The chi-square test was used to analyze the association among variables. RESULTS: In 2001, 1,253 students (547 of the male sex; mean age, 12.4±2.9 years) were assessed. The results were as follows: 1.172 students participated in no moderate to intense physical activity; “risk of overweight” and overweight were present in 116 and 56 individuals, respectively; blood pressure in the > 95th percentile was identified in 97 students; and only 30 students admitted smoking regularly. The following significant associations were observed: “risk of overweight” and overweight in private school students (*P=0.0001) and sedentary lifestyle in the female sex (*P=0.0001). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of a sedentary lifestyle, “risk of overweight,” overweight, systemic arterial hypertension, and smoking in the population studied was 93.5%, 9.3%, 4.5%, 7.7%, and 2.4%, respectively.

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Blood pressure levels and their association with cardiovascular risk factors among employees of the University of Brasília, a Brazilian public university

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in child and adolescent students in the city of Maceió

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