The Relationship Between Lifestyle, Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II And High Blood Pressure In University Students

Abstract

BACKGROUND:Identifying and controlling systemic arterial blood pressure is important in young people, and it is possible to reduce the frequency of systemic arterial hypertension by improving the lifestyle.AIM:The aim of the study is to assess the relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and systemic blood pressure in university students.MATERIALS:The study sample consisted of 200 university students from a state university in Edirne. Lifestyles and habits were evaluated with Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II. Students’ blood pressure was measured from both arms twice.RESULTS:The mean HPLP-II score of those who frequently feel good was significantly higher than those who rarely feel good. The mean score of those who frequently wake up between 06:00-09:00 in the morning was statistically significantly higher than those who wake up outside these hours. Those who perform social or artistic activities during their leisure times had a mean scale score higher than those who don’t perform. Although there wasn’t a statistically significant difference according to smoking status, the mean score of non-smokers was higher than smokers. The mean scale scores were higher in frequent salt users than non-frequent users; participants with low saturated fatty acid intake had higher scores than those with high intake, and rare fast food consumers had higher scores than frequent consumers. The statistically significant difference between blood pressure values of females and males was due to higher blood pressure in male students. Those working in a part-time job had higher blood pressure values than those who weren’t working. Among the students whose body mass indexes could be evaluated, there were differences in blood pressure values.CONCLUSION:It has been observed in our study that health-related responsibilities and lifestyle behaviours increase with better leisure time activities, improved eating habits and a positive outlook on life. Turning youngs’ tendencies towards healthy lifestyle behaviours to habits can make them healthier, more collective and more productive regarding physical, social and psychological well-being.

Prevalence of anthropometric and cardiovascular risk factors among Bulgarian university students

“…The present study found that the total prevalence of prehypertension independently of sex is 33.2%, while the hypertension prevail among 5.6% of respondents, respectively. Results of our study were similar to results of recent study in Turkey (Aynaci, Akdemir, 2018), where rate of hypertension was the same -5.6%. but the rate of prehypertension is very lower (8.6%), than our data.…”

“…This was consistent with other studies (Gharaibeh et al 2012;Cheah et al, 2018Sakurai et al, 2006. This differences, according to may be due to data collection methods, the socioeconomic status of the evaluated population, and differences in healthy lifestyle behaviours (Aynaci, Akdemir, 2018). Also, the higher prevalence of elevated blood pressure among men could be explained by the fact that hormones, suchas testosterone, can play an important role in gender-associated differences in blood pressure regulation, as well as have a protective effect, such as oestrogen in females.…”

“…The many research reported for prevalence of anthropometric, cardiovascular and environmental risk factors in children, adolescents and young adults from various countries in Bulgaria (Nikolova,1997;Nikolova et al, 2005;Andeenko and Nikolova, 2010;Mitova, 2010;Mladenova and Andreenko, 2015;Andreenko et al, 2015aAndreenko et al, , 2015b, Turkey (Aynaci, Akdemir, 2018), Serbia (Stojanovic, 2009;Crnobrnja et al, 2012), Portugal (Brandao et al, 2008),Columbia (Feliciano-Alfonso, 2010, Japan (Furukawa et al, 2009), Jordan (Gharaibeh et al, 2012), Egypt (Farrag et al, 2015), India (Jain et al, 2014, Malaysia (Cheah et al, 2018 and many other.…”

Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Associated Factors among Medical Sciences Students in Kermanshah, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…In the current study, the mean overall HPLP-II score of nonsmoking students was significantly higher than that of smoking ones, consistent with the results of Alzahrani et al in Saudi Arabia, Lolokote et al in China, and Aynaci and Akdemir in Turkey [ 12 , 26 , 30 ]. Smoking is an unhealthy behavior with negative impacts on lifestyle.…”

The impact of education given to obese and preobese university students according to the health promotion model on nutrition and physical activities

“…In a study conducted by Sen et al with 251 university students, the mean score of HLBS-II was found 118.0 ± 21.0 31 . According to previous studies, there were many studies conducted in this area and similar results were obtained [32][33][34][35] . Considering that the maximum obtainable score from healthy lifestyle behaviours is 208, the scores obtained from our study are moderate.…”