Prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors and risk of CHD events 5 and 10 years later in Illam military personnel in 2012
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the most common cause of death worldwide.
It seems that coronary heart disease (CHD) is a preventable disease if the risk factors can be controlled.
This study is conducted to investigate the prevalence of risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and to determine five- and ten-year risk of developing CHD.
METHODS:
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 216 employees. The data were collected using para-clinical experiments and IPAQ Questionnaire. Online applications designed based on the Framingham study were used to calculate five- and ten-year risk of developing CHD. Chi-squared, Kruskal-Wallis, and Mann-Whitny tests were used to analyze the data.
RESULTS:
Of total, 91.2% of the employees had atleast one risk factors. The prevalence of the risk factors were obtained 9.2% for obesity (with 95% CI: 8.0-10.3), 41/2% for overweight (with 95% CI: 35.8-46.4), 15.2% for hypertension (with 95% CI: 13.2-17.1), 1.8% for high cholesterol (with 95% CI: 1.6-1.9), 28.7% for high triglycerides (with 95% CI: 25.0-32.5), 0.4% for high LDL (with 95% CI: 0.34-0.46), 38.9% for low HDL (with 95% CI: 33.8-44.0), 1.4% for abnormal blood glucose (with 95% CI: 1.31-1.49), and 35.6% for low activity (with 95% CI: 31.0-40.2). The average (SD) probability of coronary heart disease for all participants in a five- and ten-year period was obtained 0.8% (0.9) and 2.1 %( 2.4), respectively. The five- and ten-year risk of coronary heart disease had a significant correlation with BMI, DBP, and LDL (P<0.05); and not with TG (P>0.05).
CONCLUSIONS:
There is a high prevalence of some risk factors for CHD in the military. Periodic examinations, screening, sport and education interventions seem to be necessary for these employees.