Teachers of post-graduate degree: risk group of cardiovascular disease - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v33i2.13569

Abstract

Teachers of post-graduate programs presented an increase in requests for sick leaves, mainly by symptoms or sequela of cardiovascular diseases. By using a questionnaire addressed to teachers of post-graduate courses, this study aimed to: i) identify how many of them had performed frequent physical exercise, balanced diets and medical visits, and other factors, and compare this: i) with the occurrence of cardiac interventions, coronary heart diseases, strokes and cerebral vascular accident; and ii) with the number of scientific production and the average number of advisees per year. 540 questionnaires were returned and analyzed. Our working hypothesis was accepted, that is: the increase in the number of scientific production and the average number of advisees per year was directly related with the increase on the average occurrence of cardiac procedures, coronary heart disease, stroke and cerebral vascular accident (ischemic and hemorrhagic) in teachers of post-graduation, mainly due to the lack of a balanced diet, physical activities regularly supervised, and frequent medical visits, which is justified by the excessive workload out of work time in order to maintain the quality indicators of post-graduate programs and updated curriculum.