Exposure rate of cardiovascular risk factors among clients of health-care clinics in Kashan, Autumn 2010

Cardiovascular diseases are noncontiguous diseases which are caused by various factors. One of the most important of these factors is an unhealthy lifestyle. In Iran this disease has been one of the problems of this late decade and in other words, in comparison with the 10 main causes of death in 2009, it has been the most prevalent death factor in Kashan. The main purpose of this research, considering this problem, was investigating the encountering rate of cardiovascular risk factors in Kashan.

This descriptive study was based on 336 clients who were selected through cluster sampling in health-care clinics in Kashan. The data was gathered through filling out questionnaires. These questionnaires consisted of five separate parts on information about: demographic, disease background, nutrition, smoking and physical activity. The research data was analyzed using Chi-square test.

BMI mean among the samples was 25.69. The common and main risk factor among these people include: consuming fried food (%97.9), low consumption of fish (%90.8), low consumption of grain (%79.8), low consumption of egg (%75.3), high consumption of meat (%69./3), high consumption of sweet or candy (%67.9), eating fatty food (%66.7) and with little physical activity (%66.4). There are significant relationships between life style and gender (P=0.016) and education (P=0.019), also physical activity and job (P=0.013).

According to the obtained results in this study, the client’s life styles were not in an appropriate condition. So there is a need to pay more attention to inform people to reduce the amount of fried food, meat, fatty food and sweet and increase the balanced amounts of fish, grain and cereal, egg, fruit, vegetable in their diets. It is also recommended that they should increase body activities and decrease smoking.