the relationship between obesity and effective factors on cardiovascular health and socio- economic state of male students of islamic azad university- fars science and research branch

field and aim: obesity is in parallel with raise in risk of a lot of disease such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and type two diabetes and has relation with lifestyle and socioe- economic state. aim of present study was evaluation the relationship between obesity and effective factors on cardiovascular health and socio-economic state of male students of islamic azad university-fars branch science and technology. research method: for this purpose 785 individuals with mean age 20.83 ± 1.72 year, height 174.50 ± 6.48 centimeter and weight 71.11 ± 12.35 kg) randomly selected among male student of islamic azad university-fars branch science and technology. for measure weight and fat percentage used scale, and tape. also socio-economic state measured by using socio-economic state evaluation questionnaire with acceptable reliability (r=0.75). for analysis of data, we used pearson and spearman correlation coefficient. findings: results showed there is significant positive relationship (r=0.19, p=0.001) between body fat percentiles and resting blood pressure. also, it is obtained a significant negative relationship between waist to hip percentile and cardiovascular fitness (r=0.23, p=0.001). but did not  observe significant relationship between obesity and socioe-conomic state (r=0.01, p=0.001).