The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and Metabolic Syndrome among Iranian Military Parachutists

Alireza  Khoshdel; Seyed Morteza  Seyed Jafari; Seyed Taghi  Heydari; Firoozeh  Abtahi; Alireza Abdi ardekani; Fatemeh  Jabbary Lak

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The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and Metabolic Syndrome among Iranian Military Parachutists

Author(s):

Alireza Khoshdel¹,

Seyed Morteza Seyed Jafari^1,*,

Seyed Taghi Heydari²,

Firoozeh Abtahi³,

Alireza Abdi ardekani³,

Fatemeh Jabbary Lak⁴

1AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3Cardiovascular Research Center, School of medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

4School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

International Cardiovascular Research Journal:Vol. 6, issue 2; e12816

Published online:Sep 30, 2012

Article type:Research Article

Received:May 16, 2017

Accepted:May 18, 2012

How to Cite:Alireza KhoshdelSeyed Morteza Seyed JafariSeyed Taghi HeydariFiroozeh AbtahiAlireza Abdi ardekaniFatemeh Jabbary Laket al.The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and Metabolic Syndrome among Iranian Military Parachutists.Int Cardiovasc Res J.6(2):e12816.

Abstract

Background: The incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rapidly increasing worldwide. Occupation-related stress such as military parachuting has been considered to be a potentially important cardiovascular risk factor. The present study was performed to determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome among military parachutists which provides a guideline to prevent catastrophic cardiovascular events.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study among 96 military parachutists in southern IR Iran; who were evaluated in the military clinic in Shiraz, Southern IR Iran. Information regarding demographic and life style were obtained from each subject. Arterial blood pressure, weight, height, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC), fasting blood glucose, lipid profile consisting of total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglyceride were measured by standard methods.

Results: The mean age of participants was 37.4±6.4 years. There were 5 (5.2%) cases under treatment for cardiovascular diseases, 4 (4.2%) participants were pre-diabetics and 5 (5.2%) suffered from diabetes mellitus. Hypertriglyceridemia and hypercholesterolemia were seen in 23 (24%) and 46 (47%) military parachutists respectively.

Conclusions: Although war-related stressors and high intensity physical activities are associated with both acute cardiac events and cardiac risk factors, our data is in favor of lower frequency of cardiovascular risk factors among military parachutists. However, routine monitoring of military parachutists is necessary to find the cardiovascular risk factors.

Keywords

Metabolic Syndrome

Risk Factors

Parachuting

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