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BUSTAMANTE, María José et al. Cardiovascular risk factors in adult women from San Salvador de Jujuy. Preliminary results. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2020, n.58, pp.301-315. ISSN 1668-8104.

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, and they mostly affect to women. The distribution and frequency of cardiovascular risk factors present in adult women in San Salvador de Jujuy was analyzed. Population and methods: Anthropometric measurements (weight, height, and waist circumference) were taken, nutritional status was determined by BMI and the percentage of body fat was obtained by tetrapolar bioimpedance, of 111 volunteer adult women over 18 years of age from Jujuy. A survey on smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity was conducted. The presence of cardiovascular risk was evaluated with the Waist-Height Index. The association between the risk factor and the presence of cardiovascular risk with the Chi-Square test and logistic regression was estimated, taking the nutritional status, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, percentage of body fat, alcohol consumption and age as independent variables. Results: 33.3% of women had cardiovascular risk, of which 56.8% were overweight, 54% had high body fat, 39.3% consumed alcohol, 21.6% were sedentary, 56, 8% were ex-smokers and 13.5% smoked at the time of the study. Significant association was found with the percentage of body fat (p = 0.001), smoking (p = 0.034) and excess weight (p <0.0001). Of the aforementioned risk factors, only excess weight showed a significant direct association with cardiovascular risk (OR = 4.7; 95% CI 1.04-21.3; p = 0.04). Conclusion: It concludes that exist a high prevalence of RF was observed in a sample of adult women in San Salvador de Jujuy, evidencing, in turn, that the RF most associated with CVR is excess weight, confirming results of other studies

Palavras-chave : cardiovascular disease,; excess weight,; Jujuy,; risk factors,; women.