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Background: With the rapid growth of technology across the world, India has become one of the leading countries in providing Information Technology (IT) services. The risk factors of Cardio vascular diseases are rising among the software professionals due to sedentary life style and work related stress. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of selected modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular diseases among software professionals and to determine the association between Hypertension and various risk factors Methods: This institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted in IT professionals. There are more than 200 software companies in and around Hyderabad. Among them four software companies were selected by lottery method from each direction. The sample size calculated was 385 and it is rounded off to 400. Data was analyzed using Epi-Info version 7. Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional Ethical Committee (M150722022), informed written consent was taken prior to start of the study. Results: The overall prevalence of Hypertension, overweight and obesity, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical inactivity and stress was 26%, 39%, 43.2%, 37.8%, 67% and 46.2% respectively. Association between hypertension and other risk factors found that overweight, physical inactivity, smoking, alcoholism, stress, working experience, male gender and age had a significant association with hypertension (p<0.05). Conclusion: In the present study, significant risk behaviours were observed among the software professionals, hence a healthy lifestyle must be adopted to combat these risk factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
