FREQUENCY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR BETWEEN LAWYERS AND TEACHERS.

摘要

Objective: To compare the frequency of cardiovascular risk factor between lawyers and teachers. Methodology: The study was conducted by PGMI, LRH and data was collected from lawyers and teachers working in Peshawar. Total 418 subjects were included in this study 209 from lawyers and school teachers and sampling technique was simple random. Results: Total 418 subjects were recruited in this study. Two hundreds and nine subjects were randomly selected each from lawyers and government school teachers of districts Peshawar. Both sexes were recruited in this study. Out of 209 teachers male were 67 %( 140) and female were 33 %( 69) while lawyers were predominantly male 99 %( 207). Out of 418 subjects 226(54.1%) were not performing any exercise, 115(27.5%) used to perform exercise 3 times/week as shown in. There was no statistical significance association between diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia and profession. There was a significant association between professional categories and saturated Trans Fat intake and Exercise.There were more lawyers 37 (17.7%) who had RBS ≥140 mg/ dl than teachers19 (9.1%) and it was statistically significant p-value 0.010. Conclusion: Obesity was common both in teachers and lawyers but more 2 teachers had BMI≥25kg/m . More lawyers had RBS in diabetic ranges as compared to teachers Hypercholesterolemia was also more common in lawyers than in teachers.