Background: To know the prevalence of the Cardiovascular Risking Factors in a fishing environment, with activity in the shallow-sea.
Method: Transversal descriptive study spanning from December 1992 to March 1993 carried out in the Maritime Health Department of the Sea Social Institute, in the provincials administration center of Castellon and Cartagena (Murcia). And enquire has been done with 562 seaman belonging to the fishing profession, 346 of them being from Cartagena and 216 from Castellon. When they attended the compulsory medical checking previous to the embarking.
Results: An assessment of the Cardiovascular Risking.
Factors: Smoking dependence, high blood pressure, hipercholesterol, hipertriglicedics, diabetes and obesity, depending on the origin station and the type of fishing net. The 65.6% and the 24.3% of the sampling are smokers and hipertensers respectively, and the 35.3% present figures above 240 Mgrs of cholesterol. Having Cartagena in caparison with Castellon higher frequencies, (p < 0.001) of high blood pressure and hipercholesterol. The hipertriglicedics alone is associated, (p < 0.01) with the different fishing modalities, being the trawling kind fishmen the one who to present the highest frequencies. Only the 14.5% of the sampling is free from the so-called big risking factors and the 5.7% present the three of them associated (smoking dependence, hipercholesterol and high blood pressure).
Conclusions: The high prevalence of the cardiovascular risking factors found, make necessary the organization of a prevention campaign in order to diminish the risks related to the isquimic cardiopathy and cerebrovascular illness, and this may be influenced by bad eating habits and other social an environmental factors which are common to seamen.