Objective:

To determine the lifestyles associated with cardiovascular risk in university students in times of Covid-19.

Materials and Methods:

A descriptive-cross-sectional methodology was carried out, with an analytical phase. The population was constituted by the total number of university students, which, according to the mayor's office of Santiago de Cali and the municipal education secretary, in 2020 the number of people belonging to undergraduate higher education corresponds to a total of 86,867 students. A simple sampling with proportional fixation was carried out to determine the sample. The sample size was 207 university students, with a confidence level of 95 % and a proportion of 16 %, obtained through the EPIDAT 3.1 program.

Results:

With a participation of 144 (65.8%) women and 75 (34.2 %) of men, a level of physical activity was identified with a higher frequency of Moderate 90 (41.1 %), a Body Mass Index (BMI) with a frequency of 121 (55.3 %) of weight normal and a lifestyle perception results of Good with a frequency of 109 (49.8 %). In the correlation analysis, a statistically significant relationship was found in the variables BMI [p=0.001] and the level of physical activity [p=0.001] with Cardiovascular Risk [p=0.020].

Conclusion:

The Level of Physical Activity and the BMI are factors that detected early, become important elements in a prevention program, which, its identification in early stages of the life cycle, would strengthen the reduction of Cardiovascular Risk in young adults.

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