بررسي عوامل خطر عمده بيماري هاي قلبي عروقي در پزشكان استان گيلان 1386

Risk factors of cardiovascular diseases among physician in Guilan, 2007

Background: cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death in the world and Iran. Physicians are a social health symbol and they are decision makers in health system. Therefore determining of risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in this group is very important. Methods: In a cross sectional study, 592 physicians were selected according to list of medical council with simple random sampling. The participants filled in an anonymous self reported questionnaire consist of family, personal and occupational history, their blood pressure, height, weight, blood glucose and lipids level. Collected data also included cigarette smoking, physical activity. Data analysis was done with SPSS 11.5 software. Results: From 592 selected physician 476(80.4%) responded. 218 subjects (66.8%) were male, mean ages of physicians was 47.8 ± 8.3 ( from 26 to 71 years). 37.4% males and 1.2 % females were smokers. Hypertension was reported in 16.5% males and 1.3% females. 14.6% males and 10.3% females had dyslipidemia, 2.6% males and 0.7% females were diabetic. Only 26.1% males and 22.7% females were normal weight and others were overweight or obese. Mean of sport index was 2.69± 0.45 and mean of leisure index was 2.47 ± 0.48.13.4% had not any risk factors but 30.7% had two or more risk factors. Conclusion: These findings revealed that risk factors of cardiovascular diseases among physicians are more prevalent in comparison to normal population and calls for future intensive prevention in this group.