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Volume 25, Issue Supplement 1, December 2019, Pages S87 - S87

P47 Hypertension Prevalence in Health Sciences Students of the University of Guadalajara

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Claudia Yanette Galan Ruiz*, David Cardona Müller, Ernesto Germán Cardona Muñoz, Sylvia Elena Totsuka Sutto, Brandon Giovany Illescas Vidrio, Fernando Grover Páez, Carlos Gerardo Ramos Becerra
Universidad De Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Guadalajara, Mexico
*Corresponding author. Email: yanette_galan@hotmail.com
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Claudia Yanette Galan Ruiz
Available Online 17 February 2020.
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10.2991/artres.k.191224.078How to use a DOI?
Abstract

Hypertension (HTN) is considered within the first 9 preventable causes of death in Mexico [1]. In order to estimate HTN prevalence in students a blood pressure (BP) measuring campaign was performed at the University of Guadalajara.

Methods: BP was measured in morning shift students, none with known chronic diseases. Before the measurement a survey was made to identify the cardiovascular risk factors, BP was measured in 3 occasions with an automatized sphygmomanometer (OMRON HEM907XL), according to the recommendations and protocol of international guidelines [2]. The average of the measurements were used to classify the subjects in normotensive (<140/90 mmHg) and hypertensive (≥140/90 mmHg).

Results: 881 subjects were included (603 women and 278 men). The hypertension prevalence was 2%. The prevalence was analyzed in subgroups according to the presence of risk factors. Gender, obesity, tobacco use and alcohol consumption were evaluated obtaining the following odds ratio (OR): 6.23 (Confidence interval (CI) 95%: 2.4–16.11); 2.47 (CI 95%: 0.69–8.84) 0.78 (CI 95%: 0.18–3.4); 3.61 (CI 95%: 1.43–9.09).

Conclusion: HTN prevalence in Health Sciences students was 2%. The factors that conferred the highest risk to present HTN were male gender and weekly alcohol consumption.

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Journal
Artery Research
Volume-Issue
25 - Supplement 1
Pages
S87 - S87
Publication Date
2020/02/17
ISSN (Online)
1876-4401
ISSN (Print)
1872-9312
DOI
10.2991/artres.k.191224.078How to use a DOI?
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© 2019 Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology. Publishing services by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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