COMPARISON OF PHYSICAL CONDITION AMONG ELDERS BETWEEN 2004 AND 2009 IN GORGAN CITY
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Background
Increasing number of elder people accompanied with an increasing number of subjects with chronic diseases among them. The aim of this study was to compare the results of physical condition of elder people in Grogan city, Golestan, Iran, in 2009 with the results in 2004.Methods
Through a cross-sectional study using a standard questionnaire data on 884 elder people who were resident in 4th and 5th health station covered by Gorgan health center at 2009 were collected by trained persons as self-report. Participants entered in the study through a census method are asked about their physical condition. Using Qui-Square method, collected data has been analyzed. The results were compared with the outcomes of pervious study (unpublished) at 2004 which has been carried out among 315 elder people in the same study area. SAS 9.2 software has been used for data analyzing.Results
Mean age of elders at 2009 was 67.20±6.67 years and at 2004 was 67.59±6.72 years. Frequency of Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, diabetes showed a statistically significant (pConclusion
The results of the current study indicated that cardiovascular disease significantly increased in second phase of the study rather than first one. It is necessity to interventions to the control of these problems.Keywords:
Language:
Persian
Published:
Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Lipid Disorders, Volume:16 Issue: 4, 2017
Page:
209
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