Assessment of the risks of cardiovascular system functional disorders developing in young people aged 18–25 years

Abstract

Background. In recent years, the proportion of young people with functional disorders and diseases of the cardiovascular system has increased, in the formation of which behavioral risk factors play an important role.
 Aim. To assess the risk of functional disorders developing in young people aged 1825 depending on social status and lifestyle.
 Material and methods. An observational one-stage uncontrolled study, the object of which was young people aged 1825 years (1978 people), was conducted. The study sample was divided into four groups: working (n=200) and studying (n=313) males, working (n=526) and studying (n=939) females. To assess the relative cardiovascular risk, the groups were divided according to social status, to assess the impairment of adaptive capabilities according to the presence of a behavioral risk factor. Comparison of independent groups was performed using the MannWhitney test. Testing null hypotheses about the absence of differences between the shares was carried out using the 2 test and calculating the odds ratio.
 Results. Relative cardiovascular risk was found in 21.8% of young people. The chances of risk occurrence were higher in males than in females (p 0.001), in working youth compared to students (p 0.001). The chances of reducing the adaptive capacity of the cardiovascular system were 2.1 times higher in smoking males (p 0.001) and 2.6 times higher in smoking females (p 0.001) compared to non-smoking respondents. In males with excessive alcohol consumption, in females with irregular meals and low physical activity, cases of tension in the mechanisms of adaptation of the cardiovascular system were more often noted (by 1.8; 1.4 and 1.7 times, respectively) compared with control groups.
 Conclusion. The risk of functional disorders developing was more common in young males than in females, in workers in comparison with students; cigarette smoking in both sexes, alcohol consumption in males, irregular meals and low physical activity in females contributed to a decrease in the reserve capacity of the circulatory system.

Features of the first-year students’ lifestyle at the faculty of medicine: an observational study

“…With regard to the ways of plasticizing PA, 45.7% of the students have reported that they go in for sports on their own, 18 have chosen the answer "other". 5.5% of the respondents go in for sports every day, those who go in for sports 6 times a week amount to 1.2%, 5 times a week reach 5.7%, 4 times a week amount to 5.9%, 3 times a week cover 22.1%, 2 times a week cover 21.2%, and once a week amount to 27.1%, those who have never gone in for sports include 11.3% of the students.…”

“…The contradiction lies in the fact that an imbalance between the intensity of training loads and their free time can lead to the formation of behavioral habits with an expected negative impact on their health [15,16,17]. Studies devoted to the study of the lifestyle in medical students have shown that the students generally keep an unhealthy lifestyle with some differences in their lifestyle components, gender, courses of their study and areas of their occupational training [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Therefore, of particular scientific and practical interest is an identification and an analysis of some factors influencing the formation of a healthy lifestyle for future medical doctors at the initial stage of their study at a university.…”