Background and Objectives: Life style is composed of a chain of active parameters in all dimensions of human life and has a substantial impression on health of population. Since vast majority of health problems has a strong relationship to life style, occurrence of many somatic and psychological disorders would be prevented provided that life style rectified. Blood pressure is one of the most important health criteria moderated when life style has been changed. The aim of this investigation was to study the cause_ effect relationship of life style and blood pressure in administrative employees in Bojnurd rural areas. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical (cross sectional) study 380 cases of governmental administrative employees were selected on a stratified random sampling with proportional allocation basis. The Study was conducted on 2012 in Bojnourd city of Iran. Primary data gathering tools were data recording sheet and lifestyle questionnaire. BP ≥ 90/140 were considered as hypertensive. The data analyzed in SPSS software. (V18) Results: The life style in 3 levels of desirable ,relatively desirable and undesirable estimated to be 4.58, 52.48 and 42.94 respectively. 7.4% of those studied suffered from high systolic blood pressure and 15.2% had diastolic hypertension. Blood pressure was significantly related to age, weight, height, marital status, exercise, nutrition, stress and body mass index. Conclusions: stress, malnutrition and obesity are among the factors influencing the incidence of hypertension. The essence of implementation of ongoing intervention programs by official bodies to change individual behaviors and lifestyle seems to be required.
Background & Objectives: The high prevalence of obesity, especially among adolescence, is one of the most important problems of societies. In addition to genetic factors, dietary habits and lifestyle (physical and leisure time activity) are the factors that could influence the prevalence of obesity. This study aimed to determine the pattern of food consumption and physical activity among high school students in the North Khorasan Province Material & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 450 high school students in North Khorasan. A multistage sampling was done. Data were collected for each subject using a questionnaire consist of anthropometric, demographic, dietary habits and lifestyle (physical and leisure time activity) information. Statistical paired t-test, chi-square, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were used to analyze data using SPSSversion16 Results: From the 450 study population, 228 were females (50.7%). The prevalence of obesity was higher in girls in comparison with boys. Up to 60.2% and 64.5% of boys and 38.6% and 47.4% of girls in the morning and evening shift of the school eat breakfast during the weekdays, respectively. The boys were doing more Physical activity compare with girls .Up to 35% of students during weekdays were watching television for two hours, while on holidays 39.8% were watching about 4 hours. Statistically significant association was found between BMI and eating snacks while watching TV, working with computer, eating dinner, eating snacks in the morning and afternoon, rice consumption for meals, using bread with the meals, consumption of raw vegetables and fruit during the week, cooking methods of rice,and attending in the sports class during summer.(P < 0.005) Conclusion: high prevalence of obesity, receiving high calorie in diet and poor dietary habits,and physical inactivity in adolescence need careful educational and cultural planning by the authorities and health policy makers.
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