ASSOCIATION BETWEEN LIFE HABITS AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS

Authors :: Marcela Antonini
Elizabete Santos Melo
Christefany Régia Braz Costa
Giselle Juliana de Jesus
Elucir Gir
Renata Karina Reis
Source :: Cogitare Enfermagem, Vol 23, Iss 3, p e55217 (2018)
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2018.
Abstract: Objective: To analyze the life habits and cardiovascular risk of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus, through sociodemographic, clinical and behavioral factors. Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study carried out in specialized services in the care of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus, from 2014 to 2016, in a municipality in the inland of the state of São Paulo – Brazil. The Framingham Risk Score was used to stratify cardiovas-cular risks. Results: Three hundred forty (340) individuals participated in the study. There was an association between cardiovascular risk and the variables gender (p = 0.003), age (p

Subjects :: HIV infections
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Cardiovascular diseases
Health promotion
Nursing
RT1-120
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270

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