40% of English adolescents have a moderate risk for cardiovascular disease, according experto.Casi half of adolescents do not practice physical exercises regularly and about 20% is already a major risk factor cardiovascular
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MADRID 26/11/2009 About 40 percent of English adolescents between 13 and 18 have a moderate risk of developing cardiovascular diseases like hypertension or metabolic disorders such as diabetes, as stated Today the professor of physiology at the University of Murcia Salvador Zamora, during the presentation in Madrid of the study "Reduction of cardiovascular risk in adolescents."
In the words of this expert, the cardiovascular risk "is closely linked to the sedentary life of young people", according to the study, affects 41 percent of children and 52 percent girls in Spain. "A sedentary lifestyle should begin to be seen as a pathology, it is the basis and reason for the major metabolic disorders, overweight, obesity and cardiovascular disease," said Professor Zamora.
"not a matter of consensus among experts and to discuss the situation, that the abandonment of a sedentary lifestyle decreases the risk of these diseases is a fact, tested and proven for decades," he said. "It's clear that lifestyles of teenagers have changed dramatically," he said, "For 40 years the street was of children and spent the day playing in it just after school. "
Also, the consumption of alcohol among this group starts to be" worrying "and even" in some cases dramatic, "he said." It has gone from a sporadic onset alcohol at parties or family celebrations the uncontrolled intake of alcohol often distilled in children 10 years or less "he said." If no remedy for this situation, the present generation may not come to the expectations of current life expectancy, and if they do not do so with a good quality of life, "said the specialist.
In this sense, the study underlying the assertions of Professor Zamora has determined that 21 percent of the adolescents studied presented a cardiovascular risk factor (hypertension, high cholesterol, physical inactivity and obesity) and five of every thousand presents the four factors, "which represents only 0.5 percent of adolescents are at high risk for complications and even death from cardiovascular failure, "he said.
The research, which was attended by more than 9,000 adolescents in Murcia, Granada and Madrid, using a system that combined nutrition education and physical activity in schools for six months. The result was that two 15-minute weekly talks and planning of physical education classes overall cardiovascular risk adolescents declined by about 15 percent, was able to reduce your blood pressure and improve their physical fitness.
PROBLEMS WITH THE STRATEGY NAOS
"Programs like this are important to improve the health status of English children and adolescents, but to put up political commitment is needed, the funds and the full cooperation of parents, schools and the media, "said Professor Zamora.
However, no national experience is positive, according to this specialist. The results for example in the Strategy for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Prevention of Obesity (NAOS), supported by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, "not very happy with their leaders because, despite being launched with great fanfare, is not being followed every day and results resent it, "said Zamora.
