OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of lifestyle and drug interventions for treating patients with essential hypertension. METHODS Systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with 8 or more weeks follow-up, enrolling patients with blood pressure of at least 140/85 mmHg, which directly compared lifestyle and drug interventions. Planned outcome measures were cardiovascular morb...

BACKGROUND Healthy lifestyle is a major strategy to promote current and subsequent health status. The aim of this study was to assess the status of health-promoting the lifestyle and its determinants among students. METHODS A stratified random sample of 500 students in a university in the city of Sabzevar, Iran participated in this cross-sectional study. Health-promoting lifestyle was measure...

Background and objectives: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in developing countries. Because the cause of many chronic diseases lies in the human's lifestyle, performing health promotion behaviors is the best way to maintain and improve the health. Hence, this study aimed to compare the health promoting behaviors based on the Pender model in at risk groups of type 2 diabetes in wom...

The leading causes of mortality worldwide are chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs); cardiovascular disease (17 million), followed by cancer (7.6 million), respiratory disease (4.2 million) and diabetes (1.3 million) (1). The newly published Global Burden of Disease Study (2010) has systematically highlighted the epidemiological shift in morbidity and mortality resulting from infectious dise...

life style is a blend of behavioral and personal habits and encompasses different aspects like nutrition, physical activity, stress, tobacco consumption and sleeping quality which is resulted from socialization process. regarding performed investigations, people with appropriate lifestyle are healthier, and this issue is more important for military forces which must have a higher level of physi...

BACKGROUND Health risks associated with unhealthy behaviours in adolescent and university students contribute to the development of health problems in later life. During the past twenty years, there has been a dramatic increase in public, private, and professional interest in preventing disability and death through changes in lifestyle and participation in screening programs. The aim of the stu...

OBJECTIVE We developed the Determinants of Lifestyle Behavior Questionnaire (DLBQ) to measure determinants of lifestyle behavioral change according to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in adults at high risk of diabetes type 2 (T2DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The aim of the current study was to test the validity of the DLBQ. METHODS From February to September 2008, a cross-section...

BACKGROUND Health behaviours do not occur in isolation. Rather they cluster together. It is important to examine patterns of health behaviours to inform a more holistic approach to health in both health promotion and illness prevention strategies. Examination of patterns is also important because of the increased risk of mortality, morbidity and synergistic effects of health behaviours. This st...