Paramedical Sciences and Military Health

Introduction: Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases are known as one of the threatening factors of humans’ health. Therefore, this study examined the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases risk factors in Qom University of Medical Sciences in 2011.
Methods and Materials: The present study is cross – sectional study. The sample size was equal to 0.05, regarding to the sample size formula for cross-sectional study and probability of type I error. Moreover, the accuracy of study was 0.25, and the minimum required sample size was equal to 188 individual. The samples were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using a questionnaire; moreover, descriptive and inferential statistical tests (mean, chi-square tests) were used to analyze the results by using SPSS version 18.
Results: The mean age of participants was 36.52 ± 8.3and 81.4% of them were married. The results showed that There were significant differences between the male and female employees in the meantime physical activity (P=0.005), waist circumference (P=0.0001), age of onset of smoking (P=0.001) and blood pressure (P=0.0001). In addition, there were significant relationships between the body mass index and waist circumference with History of hypertension (P=0.0001), history of fat (P=0.0001), and history of diabetes (P=0.005).
Discussion and Conclusion: Generally, this study was conducted on medical university staffs that most of them were familiar with risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and they had a healthy lifestyle, so cardiovascular diseases had lower prevalence among them.

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases associated with metabolism in humans. This study aimed to determine risk factors of diabetes in patients monitored by Sabzevar diabetics association.
Methods and Materials: This study was a cross-sectional study performed on 148 type II diabetics patients monitored by Sabzevar diabetics association in September 2016. The blood pressure blood glucose and body mass index were measured in the patients. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 16 using T-test and Chi-square test.
Results: Based on the results, the mean age of patients were 53.6±11.8 years. The results indicated that there is a significant relationship among hypertension and education, age, and hyperlipidemia (P<0.05). Older and lower educated patients had more hypertension. Moreover, there is a significant relationship among hyperlipidemia and age, educational level, blood pressure, body mass index and diabetes (P<0.05).
Discussion and Conclusion: Due to the lack of knowledge about risk factors for type II diabetes, findings of the current study can be beneficial for patients to prevent, treat and reduce the complications of diabetes.