Alteraciones en la percepción cromática en estudiantes de las Unidades Educativas de las Parroquias Rurales del cantón Guano, provincia de Chimborazo, durante el periodo abril – septiembre 2014.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The objective of the research is to determine the relationship between Metabolic Syndrome and Lifestyles in the Students of the Professional Driver Union of Chimborazo. The syndrome noted in recent years has been recognized as one of the non-communicable diseases of a worldwide accelerated increase in the main responsible for development in diseases, disease that is closely related to the overweight and obesity risk factors that in our country of the same way it is increased over the entire population according to PAHO data which do not locate in one of the countries with the highest rate of overweight and obesity in Latin America. METHODS: A descriptive experimental study was carried out to analyze a population of 123 students, mostly male (probably due to the inclination towards the driving profession), of which, under inclusion criteria, mainly overweight and exclusion criteria, a sample of 70 people; in this sample, diagnostic parameters were evaluated according to the IDF (new definition) of metabolic syndrome in addition to the application of anthropometric surveys and assessment, thus arriving at its diagnosis. RESULTS: Diagnostic cases of metabolic syndrome in a significant percentage (41.4%), of which 44% were male and 14.3% were female. As for the percentage of relationship between unhealthy lifestyles and metabolic syndrome were (93.1% - 72.4% - 79.3%) for non-performance of physical activity, alcohol consumption, and tobacco consumption respectively.