<p><em>The goal of this research is to analyze the status of young students’ physical health and its connection with lifestyle. The research participants were 107 Medical College’s 1<sup>st</sup> year students that formed part of the youth category as it is defined in Latvia, i.e., up until the age of 25. Students’ physical health was evaluated in accordance with Apanasenko’s methods based on investigative anthropometric and functional testing measurements. These measurements included body mass index, vital capacity, strength index, Robinson index and Recovery Heart Rate. Students’ lifestyle habits were determined with the help of questionnaire that included question groups regarding the self-evaluation of health status, health problems and illnesses, eating habits, bad habits, rest and physical activities. During the research, lipid parameters in blood were also measured determining the total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL).</em></p><p> </p>
The aim of the study is to identify the CVD risks among medical college students associating them to their lifestyle. It should be noted that cardiovascular diseases also affect young people, which students are also. Information obtained during research is necessary for prospective medical staff to acknowledge their cardiovascular health and its influencing factors, as well as for college lecturers to make changes in study programs. The theoretical part of the research discusses various CVD risk determination methods, as well as lifestyle`s impact on cardiovascular health. The empirical part of the research contains information about ten years CVD risk among students, using two Framingham methods (based on the body mass index and amount of lipids in the blood) and seven risk factor (blood pressure, body mass index, smoking, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density cholesterol and glucose) addition method.
The goal of this research is to analyze the change of students’ physical health during the one year of studies in context of lifestyle. The research participants were 103 Medical College’s students aged 19 to 56 years. All tests, measurements and questionnaires were done at falls of 2015 and 2016. Students’ physical health was evaluated in accordance with Apanasenko’s methods based on investigative anthropometric and functional testing measurements. These measurements included body mass index, lungs vital capacity, strength index, Robinson index and Recovery Heart Rate. Students’ lifestyle habits were determined with the help of questionnaire that included question groups regarding the self-evaluation of health status, health problems and illnesses, eating habits, and physical activities. During the research, lipid parameters in blood were also measured determining the total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL).
Iron deficiency (ID) and its late stage, iron deficiency anaemia, are often overlooked conditions in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study is primarily aimed at the need for first-phase screening for ID in patients with IBD using laboratory baseline parameters such as ferritin and C-reactive protein (CRP). Laboratory data of 4558 unique patients with IBD was analysed. For first-phase screening of ID, the thresholds of serum ferritin < 30 µg/l in the absence of inflammation (CRP < 5 mg/l) and serum ferritin < 100 µg/l in the presence of inflammation (CRP > 5 mg/l) were used. The study revealed that ferritin analysis was conducted for only one third of the enrolled unique patients with IBD over a five-year period. First-phase ID screening showed that decrease in ferritin values was found in 56% of unique IBD patients over this period, as determined using CRP and ferritin during the same blood collection (same referral number). Haemoglobin (Hb) tests were performed in 93% of unique IBD patients in the five-year period. A decrease in Hb was found in 21% of unique patients with Crohn’s disease, 20% of patients with ulcerative colitis, and in 5% of patients with unspecified non-infective gastroenteritis and colitis.
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