Perfil epidemiológico de primer semestre de 2007 de una institución de ii nivel de atención. Bogotá D.C.

El perfil epidemiológico de morbimortalidad de la población atendida en un Hospital de segundo nivel en el distrito capital, en el periodo comprendido de enero a junio de 2007, nos presenta la situación real en salud de esta población en particular, también se presentara los eventos de notificación obligatoria y su frecuencia. Realizamos estudio descriptivo retrospectivo con el fin de determinar las patologías mas frecuentes atendidas en esta institución, al igual que también las causas de mortalidad prevalentes en esta población, a la vez se analizo y se observo los diferentes factores que afectan a esta población.

Normative reference values for the 20-meter shuttlerun test in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL Study

Our aim was to determine the normative reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and to establish the proportion of subjects with low CRF suggestive of future cardio-metabolic risk.

Cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk factors in schoolchildren from Colombia: The FUPRECOL Study

The objectives of this study are to investigate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in schoolchildren and to evaluate the degree of association between overall and abdominal adiposity and cardiorespiratory fitness. A total of 1,875 children and adolescents attending public schools in Bogota, Colombia (56.2% girls; age range of 9–17.9 years). A cardiovascular risk score (Z-score) was calculated and participants were divided into tertiles according to low and high levels of overall (sum of the skinfold thicknesses) and abdominal adiposity. Schoolchildren with a high level of overall adiposity demonstrated significant differences in seven of the 10 variables analyzed (i.e. systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, triglycerides/HDL-c ratio, total cholesterol, glucose and cardiovascular risk score). Schoolchildren with high levels of both overall and abdominal adiposity and low cardiorespiratory fitness had the least favorable cardiovascular risk factors score. These findings may be relevant to health promotion in Colombian youth.