Antecedentes: La Organizacion Mundial de la Salud ha identificado al sedentarismo como uno de los factores de riesgo principales para la ocurrencia de enfermedad cardiovascular. Objetivo. Determinar la prevalencia de inactividad fisica y su relacion con factores socioeconomicos en habitantes del departamento de Boyaca, Colombia. Materiales y Metodos. Estudio observacional, de corte transversal analitico. A 6736 personas residentes en 34 municipios, con edades entre 15 y 69 anos, les fue aplicado un instrumento de valoracion de riesgo cardiovascular y el Cuestionario internacional de actividad fisica (IPAQ), se adelanto analisis exploratorio y posteriormente, mediante analisis estratificado se intento identificar factores socioeconomicos significativamente ligados a la inactividad fisica. Resultados. Se registro prevalencia de inactividad fisica en 63,72%de las personas, Ocurre mas inactividad en las mujeres y las personas jovenes. La inactividad aumenta con el nivel educativo y con la percepcion negativa de la salud, mayor tasa de inactividad ocurre en personas con ingresos superiores al minimo (p<,0,01), la edad, el convivir con una pareja estable, la percepcion del estado de salud y la diabetes, no se perfilan como variables predictoras significativas relacionadas positivamente con la practica de actividad fisica (p>,0,05).Conclusion. Los resultados demuestran la necesidad de implementar estrategias de intervencion de tipo educativo que permitan fomentar en comunidades y personas la practica habitual y eficaz de actividad fisica como medida de proteccion de la salud. Palabras Clave: Actividad Fisica, Enfermedad Cardiovascular, Factores de Riesgo ABSTRACT Background: The World Health Organization has identified to sedentary lifestyle as one of the main risk factors for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Objective. To determine the prevalence of physical inactivity and its relation to socioeconomic factors in inhabitants of the department of Boyaca, Colombia. Materials and Methods. Observational, cross sectional, analytic study. We applied an questionnaire to identify cardiovascular risk assessment and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) to 6736 residents in 34 municipalities aged 15 to 69 years, was ahead exploratory analysis and Subsequently, by stratified analysis, sought to identify socioeconomic factors linked with physical inactivity. Results. It was found prevalence of physical inactivity in 63.72% of the people, inactivity occurs more in women and young people. Inactivity increases with the level of education and the negative perception of health, higher rates of inactivity occurs in people with incomes above the minimum (p <,0,01), age, living with a partner, the perception of health status and diabetes, don´t are emerging as significant predictors positively related to physical activity (p>, 0.05) Conclusion. The results demonstrate the need to implement strategies for educational intervention that can change dietary patterns and encourage communities and individuals to common and effective practice of physical activity as a measure of health protection.. Key words: Physical activity, Cardiovascular Disease, Risk Factors
