Sanchez Cataneo A1, Alvarez Lezama NG1, Perez Quiroga CL1
1Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Background: In Mexico approximately 70% of the population is affected by venous insufficiency, which has become a very common disease in people between 25 and 44 years of age, this according to the yearbook of morbidity 2015, where classifies within the 20 causes of national disease.
Purpose: To know the prevalence of venous insufficiency in university students, as well as the risk factors in this type of population.
Methods: It is an observational, transversal, descriptive and analytical study in a sample of 309 students of the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla of the faculties of physiotherapy and nutrition. At the beginning of the assessment the students were explained how the assessment would be carried out, they were given to sign an informed consent form, after that, they answered a descriptive survey that systematically identified and analyzed the determinants of Venous Insufficiency. The presence of the pathology was detected with the Perthes and Trendelemburg test with tourniquet (47 x 2.5 cm.), The CEAP-C classification identified the stage of the pathology. Statistical, analytical, descriptive and interferential were performed with the SPSS 23 program, using Pearson´s chi-square to generate quantitative values.
Results: The prevalence of IV was 72.81% in the study population, of which, the risk factors with the most significant correlation with the Venous Insufficiency were: smoking (p= 0.670) and use of heels (p = 0.578). The clinical stages of the CEAP-C classification were manifested as follows: C1 (65.69%) and C2 (7.11%), 27.18% (84 subjects).
Conclusion(s): The factor with greater relation in the appearance of venous insufficiency was the sedentarismo, showing positive correlation with stage C1 and C2. It is worth mentioning that the symptomatology was present in 65.77% of the population from stage C1.
Implications: When observing indications of the pathology it is indispensable its attention, as well as its prevention from the population of young university students, as it is demonstrated in this study, besides avoiding future complications. With the results obtained in the research it is shown that young people are not exempt from presenting the clinical picture.
Keywords: Venous insufficiency, CEAP classification, risk factors
Funding acknowledgements: The research was funded by the researchers.
Purpose: To know the prevalence of venous insufficiency in university students, as well as the risk factors in this type of population.
Methods: It is an observational, transversal, descriptive and analytical study in a sample of 309 students of the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla of the faculties of physiotherapy and nutrition. At the beginning of the assessment the students were explained how the assessment would be carried out, they were given to sign an informed consent form, after that, they answered a descriptive survey that systematically identified and analyzed the determinants of Venous Insufficiency. The presence of the pathology was detected with the Perthes and Trendelemburg test with tourniquet (47 x 2.5 cm.), The CEAP-C classification identified the stage of the pathology. Statistical, analytical, descriptive and interferential were performed with the SPSS 23 program, using Pearson´s chi-square to generate quantitative values.
Results: The prevalence of IV was 72.81% in the study population, of which, the risk factors with the most significant correlation with the Venous Insufficiency were: smoking (p= 0.670) and use of heels (p = 0.578). The clinical stages of the CEAP-C classification were manifested as follows: C1 (65.69%) and C2 (7.11%), 27.18% (84 subjects).
Conclusion(s): The factor with greater relation in the appearance of venous insufficiency was the sedentarismo, showing positive correlation with stage C1 and C2. It is worth mentioning that the symptomatology was present in 65.77% of the population from stage C1.
Implications: When observing indications of the pathology it is indispensable its attention, as well as its prevention from the population of young university students, as it is demonstrated in this study, besides avoiding future complications. With the results obtained in the research it is shown that young people are not exempt from presenting the clinical picture.
Keywords: Venous insufficiency, CEAP classification, risk factors
Funding acknowledgements: The research was funded by the researchers.
Topic: Professional practice: other; Health promotion & wellbeing/healthy ageing
Ethics approval required: Yes
Institution: Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla
Ethics committee: The Research Ethics Committee of the Department of Health Sciences
Ethics number: CONBIOETICA21CEI00620131021
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