Authors
SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI HAZAVEHEI1, SARA SHAHABADI2, SAEED BASHIRIYAN3, MANOOCHEHR KARAMI4, AFSHIN ALMASI5, SEYEDEH ZEINAB HASHEMI2, MOHAMMAD REZA SAIDI6*
Departments
1Professor of Health Education and Promotion, Department of public health, School of Public health and Research Center for
Health Sciences, Hamadan university of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran - 2PhD student of Health Education and Promotion,
Department of public health, School of Public health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan university of Medical
Sciences, Hamadan, Iran - 3Assistant Professor of Health Education and Promotion, Department of public health, School of Public
health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan university of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran - 4Assistant Professor of
Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Social determinants of Health Research Centre (SDHRC)
Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran - 5Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran - 6Assistant Professor of
Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, Kermanshah University of
Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one causes of death in the world with 17.5 million deaths in 2012. The purpose of this paper is to determine the most important behavioral and non- behavioral risk factors for CVDs, among patients with heart failures in Kermanshah, in order to design interventional health promotion programs for reducing CVDs risk factors.
Method and material: In this cross-sectional study 402 participants were selected from cardiovascular patients that hospitalized in Imam Ali Hospital (a referral hospital) for the first time, by consecutive sampling. Data on CVDs behavioral risk factors were collected from a questionnaire that was mainly adopted from the core and the expanded questionnaires of WHO Stepwise approach. Data on total cholesterol, Triglyceride, Fast Blood Sugar Blood Pressure and Body Mass Index were extracted from patient records and to calculate Waist to Hip Ratio index, waist size and hip circumference were measured by interviewers.
Conclusion: Diet status was main priority for health promotion interventions, and then in order physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and smoking are important for interventions. Obesity, especially abdominal obesity is an important risk factor for CVDs. In these patients glucose impairments were higher than lipid disorders.
Keywords
Need assessment, risk factors, cardiovascular diseases, Kermanshah.
