Relationship of lifestyle and hypertension in administrative employees in Bojnurd rural areas

Abstract

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.

Cardiac Function Modeling in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Based on Type D Personality Considering the Mediating Role of Health-Promoting Lifestyle

“…Type D personality affects the biological causes (e.g. blood pressure, blood lipids, and tobacco use) of coronary heart disease [22,23,29]. In the present research, the mean scores of stress control and interpersonal relationships and support were 13.27 and 17.27, respectively, which gained lower scores compared with the mean scores of the other dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle.…”

“…Investigating the predictive role of type D personality and health-promoting lifestyle in predicting cardiac function in patients with acute myocardial infarction also showed a correlation coefficient of 0.039 and 0.18 in patients with acute myocardial infarction. In addition, the indirect effect of type D personality variable on the cardiac function of patients with acute myocardial infarction with mediating the health-promoting lifestyle explained variance (R 2 ) as much as 0.37, indicating an indirect effect on the cardiac function [20,22,23,38,39]. The results were also consistent with the Sedaghat et alStein et aland Mirzaie et al study results which reported that following a promoting lifestyle, especially in cardiac patients, is not only being aware of a healthy lifestyle but is also being influenced by psychological factors such as personality type and motivation [19,24,29].…”

“…Health-promoting lifestyle includes practices such as nutrition, physical activity, health responsibility, stress management, interpersonal relationships, and spiritual growth [22]. An inappropriate lifestyle is one of the factors affecting the development of chronic diseases and one of the most important causes of death in Iran [23].…”

Population Attributable Fraction for Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors in Selected Countries: A comparative study

“…Several studies indicate the need for effective interventions to change lifestyle in order to control and reduce blood pressure. In Saber Moghadam et al study (2013), inactivity, stress, obesity and poor nutrition mentioned as the most important factors affecting the incidence of hypertension ( 20 ). In Mansourian et al study (2012), a significant relationship was observed between the dimensions of lifestyle (physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal communication and stress management) and hypertension ( 21 ).…”

Positive Association between Hemoglobin Concentration and Blood Pressure in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on Rafsanjan Cohort Study

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