Introduction:

The changing life of university students provides changes in their lifestyles, which influences health aspects, as well as the relationship between wakefulness and sleep due to their academic activities, which denotes a need to be studied, to guide actions of Disease prevention in the future.

Objective:

To identify the association between lifestyles and the chronotype of university students in Popayán-Colombia.

Methods:

Quantitative descriptive correlational study of a transversal cohort, conducted in the city of Popayán-Colombia in a Higher Education Institution during the II period of 2017 and I of 2018, with a population of 342 university students, who met the inclusion criteria how to be enrolled during the established periods, attend the evaluations and sign the informed consent.

Main measurements:

Anthropometric variables (body weight and height, waist circumference), blood pressure, PEPS-I lifestyle questionnaire, and Horne Y Östberg Maturity-Vespertinity questionnaire.

Results:

There was a moderate association between the lifestyles and the chronotype of the students (r = 0.593; p = 0.000), however, age and sex are key variables for high associations for BMI (r = 0.938; p = 0.004) and waist circumference (r = 0858; p = 0.000).

Conclusions:

The lifestyles affect the chronotype of the students, considering the need to generate prevention campaigns as well as health promotion in this population.