THE PREVALENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN APPARENTY HEALTHY MEDICAL STUDENTS
| Autor: | Lavinia Noveanu, Germaine Savoiu, O. Fira-Mladinescu, Georgeta Mihalas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Annals of West University of Timisoara: Series of Biology, Vol VIII, Pp 97-106 (2005) |
| ISSN: | 2285-7044 1582-3830 |
| Popis: | Our study comprised one group of 518 apparently healthy medical students, 375 girls and 143 boys, with a mean age of 20 2 years, who attended the first and the second year of study at University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babes” Timisoara. We assessed the cardiovascular disease risk factors using 4 methods: (a) the questionnaire method, (b) the measurement of blood pressure, (c) the measurement of several anthropometric parameters, such as body mass index and waist circumference, and (d) the measurement of biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile and fasting plasma glucose. Great evidence was obtained that certain lifestyles related to tobacco smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, and psychosocial stress had an important prevalence in medical young subjects, leading to adverse changes in physiological and biochemical characteristics, that enhance the development of an earlier atherosclerosis in adulthood. |
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