Association Between Lifestyle and Hypertension in Patients Referred to Health Care Centers of Ilam City in 2014
| Autor: | Mohammad Mahboubi, Maryam Esmaeli Kia, Hossein Ansari, Morteza Mansourian, Aziz Rezapour, Babak Rastegari Mehr, Mostafa Qorbani, Zahra Shafieyan, Hamid Asayesh, Omid Safari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male lifestyle medicine.medical_specialty hypertension Health Behavior physical activity Comorbidity Disease Iran Affect (psychology) Article stress Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Health care medicine Humans Obesity Life Style Referral and Consultation Aged Aged 80 and over Descriptive statistics business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Smoking Case-control study health responsibility General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Diet Case-Control Studies Family medicine Physical therapy Female business |
| Zdroj: | Global Journal of Health Science |
| ISSN: | 1916-9744 1916-9736 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p161 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: Lifestyle is referred to an individual’s healthy and unhealthy behaviors that can affect their health statues. The present study aim was association between lifestyle and hypertension in patients referred to healthcare centers of Ilam city in 2014.MATERIALS & METHODS: This research study was a case-control study. The data were collected through a standard questionnaire of health-promoting lifestyle profile (HPLPII) as well as the researcher’s direct visit to the health care centers in the city of Ilam. After the questionnaires were collected and classified, the data were entered into SPSS software and analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, T-Tests and logistic regression.RESULTS: The mean and the standard deviation of the age of the main and the control groups were 57.1 (2.22) and 56.5 (2.99) years old, respectively. 10.9%of the control group and 25.5. % of the cases was smoking cigarettes or hookah. The results of the data analysis showed that the mean scores obtained by the main and the control groups on measures of physical activity, psychological growth, stress and total lifestyleare significantly different, so that the obtained score in the dimensions in patients with hypertension was significantly lower than the score obtained among the healthy individuals.CONCLUSIONS: According to the results it seems that educational interventions in the field of healthy lifestyle for individuals with hypertension risk can have an effect on controlling this disease and reducing its incidence. |
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