Syndrome metabolic risk factors in university students

Objetive: To identify metabolic syndrome risk factors in university students.
Methods: transverse study by survey method, clinical history and glucose, performed in 2680 students  of Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, México, registered in 2006. Descriptive statistic was used. The variables studied were: sex, age, corporal mass index, blood pressure, glucose and food ingested in a week.
Results.
The students’ age mean was 19 years old. 30,6% of the men presented overweight and 16,2% obesity. 24,6% of the women had overweight and 11% obesity. The mean of corporal mass index in men was 25,4 and 24,2 in woman. The blood pressure was elevated in 19,4 % of men and 4,8% of woman. The mean glucose was  83,1 mg/dL in men and 81,8 md/dL in women. The foods more consumed by the students were regional food with high content in carbohydrates and animal fat. The 45,8% of men had some risk factor and the woman the 23,4% of them.
Conclusions. It is high the students  percentage of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, México, that  in early age have risk factors to present metabolic syndrome. Generally,  the men have more risk factors than the woman. The feeding patterns and probably the sedentary require of an intervention program to correct the progressive tendency towards degenerative chronic diseases.