[Intervention with rumba and nutrition education to modify cardiovascular risk factors in adults with metabolic syndrome].

Objective: Evaluate the effect of an intervention with rumba dance and nutrition education on the cardiovascular risk factors in a group of people with metabolic syndrome in a rural area of Colombia.

Methods: Controlled, randomized clinical trial that included 59 people between 30 and 60 years of age with metabolic syndrome. The intervention group (n = 30) participated in a 12-week exercise program of aerobic rumba (60 minutes, 3 days per week) and muscle-strengthening work (30 minutes, twice a week).

[Cardiovascular risk factors in an urban Colombia population].

Objective: Evaluating the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in an urban population aged 25 to 50 in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, Colombia, during 2009. Determining the population attributable risk percentage (PARP) for coronary heart disease risk factors.

Materials And Methods: A prevalence study was conducted; two-stage random sampling was made of 357 people without known cardiovascular disease.