Background and Objective: Metabolic syndrome comprises a collection of metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia and central obesity. Patients with this syndrome are highly predisposed for mortality due to cardiovascular disease. The importance of prompt diagnosis of metabolic syndrome threatening the population of physicians and their health which stand in a cl...

As adoptin and maintenance of healthy eating behaviours is an important factor for Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) prevention , this research was conducted to determin dietetic risk factors in relation to IHD. This is a case – control study conducted in fall 2003 in Tehran Heart Center and Tehran Shahid Rajaii hospital. 100 subjects with IHD, as cases and 100 controls with no cardiovascular diseas...

    Background & Aims : Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in West Azerbaijan province. This study was conducted to estimate the contribution to the burden of modification risk factor of central obesity and determine the effect of reducing its prevalence on cardiovascular diseases in this province.   Materials & Methods : To calculate the P otential Impact Fraction...

Abstract Background: Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular diseases are common and the rate is increasing. This study was planed to assess the prevalence of laboratory risk factors and associated parameters and categorize them. Materials and methods: A cross–sectional study was done at prevention clinics of Modarres hospital in 1388-89 apparently healthy adults were invited for assessing cardiova...

Background & Aim: Modification of unhealthy life style is a preventive method in cardiovascular diseases. It seems that education which results in enhancing knowledge would improve the life style. For developing effective educational plans, it is required to evaluate the knowledge and performance of the patients. So, this study aimed to determine the relationship between the teachers;apos preve...