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- Title
Risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in college students: association with sociodemographic variables.
- Authors
Lima, Adman Câmara Soares; Araújo, Márcio Flávio Moura; de Freitas, Roberto Wagner Júnior Freire; Zanetti, Maria Lucia; de Almeida, Paulo César; Damasceno, Marta Maria Coelho
- Abstract
Objective: identify the modifiable risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus in college students and associate these factors with their sociodemographic variables. Method: cross-sectional study, involving 702 college students from Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. Sociodemographic, anthropometric, physical exercise data and blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose levels were collected. Results: the most prevalent risk factor was sedentariness, followed by overweight, central obesity, high fasting plasma glucose and arterial hypertension. A statistically significant association was found between overweight and sex (p=0.000), age (p=0.004) and marital status (p=0.012), as well as between central obesity and age (p = 0.018) and marital status (p=0.007) and between high fasting plasma glucose and sex (p=0.033). Conclusion: distinct risk factors were present in the study population, particularly sedentariness and overweight.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; TYPE 2 diabetes risk factors; CHI-squared test; COLLEGE students; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; POPULATION geography; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2014, Vol 22, Issue 3, p484
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-1169.3053.2441