Introduction: The study was carried out to assess the incidence of cardiovascular risk factors in an Iranian young population. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 137 students (42 male and 95 female, mean age: 21.99±1.54) of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences in Bandar Abbas, Iran from January 2008 to December 2009. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The...

background: numerous studies have reported prehypertension (pre-htn) as a risk factor for the cardiovascular diseases as hypertension (htn). aim: the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of pre-htn on cardiovascular incidences among the females of isfahan cohort study (ics). materials and methods: healthy female at baseline were followed for a median of 6.7 years. they were divided into ...

introduction: hypertension is the most important modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. hypertension is the leading global risk factor for mortality and as the third leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease burden. this survey has been conducted to determine the prevalence of hypertension among the inhabitants of 25-64 aged in 17th zone of tehran, selected as population lab region. method...

abstract objective: diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disease. one of the most common problems in diabetic patients is atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease which is induced by hyperlipidemia. impaired lipid metabolism resulting from uncontrolled hyperglycemia has been implicated in cardiovascular complications in diabetic patients. also, glycated hemoglobin (hba1c) has been regar...

AIM Little is known about the impact of having one cardiovascular (CV) risk factor on the levels of other CV risk factors in the general adolescent population. We hypothesized that when adolescents have one CV risk factor, the levels of other CV risk factors worsen simultaneously. METHODS Subjects consisted of 1,257 healthy adolescent volunteers (549 males and 708 females) aged 15-18 years. A...

polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), or stein-leventhal syndrome, is a common endocrine disorder defined by two of the three following features: i) oligoovulation or anovulation, ii) clinical and/or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism, or iii) polycystic ovaries, once the related endocrinological and gynaecological disorders have been excluded. pcos does not exclusively involve the reproductive ...

background : this study was designed to investigate whether there was an association between abo blood groups and car­diovascular risk factors in healthy population. methods : in this cross-sectional study, risk factors screening for cardiovascular disease(cvd) on 5000 healthy persons of go­lestan province, northern iran, in 2005 was estimated by a questionnaire that included age, sex, physical...

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background diabetes mellitus is assumed to be a strong risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (cvd) and is frequently associated with other cvd risk factors. objectives the aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of different patterns of dyslipidemia in individuals with diabetes compared with non-diabetic subjects and evaluate other accompanied cvd risk factors between the two groups....