Discussing health in high school: coronary artery disease (CAD) and its relationship with gene, sedentary lifestyle and nutrition

Abstract

The work in question is related to the "XXIII Scientific Exhibition" held at the School of Basic Education linked to the Regional Integrated University – URI where academics guided by the regent of the discipline of Biology encourage high school students to carry out scientific work that provides opportunities for research, scientific development and protagonism. The relevant points of the work are in the research and understanding carried out between the relationship of genetic and environmental factors and their actions in the development of coronary artery diseases (CAD); in addition to the perception regarding the learning opportunities of this work for high school students. To this end, the bibliographic research was carried out from the search of articles published between 2021 and 2022 found in the "PubMed" database, being discarded articles whose objective and the results/conclusion were not consistent with the central idea of the work. In relation to the research, it was concluded that genes are important factors for the possibility of the development of such diseases, however, a good diet and the practice of physical exercises appear as limiting factors for CAD to manifest themselves, considering their influence on the body, since it is proven that the genes contribute very little to the action of coronary diseases. In relation to the protagonism of the student, it was observed that the research provided scientific knowledge, opportunity to dialogue with academics, incentive to research understanding that it is an essential factor for the development of criticality, autonomy, competence and learning in a significant way.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/globalhealthprespesc-075