background: life style is the collection of behaviors influenced by individuals' characteristics, social interactions and socio-economic situations. since, pregnancy is a part of life it can change persons' life style. this study has tried to evaluate the relationship between life style and some characteristics of pregnant women. methods: this study was an analytic cross sectional study. the da...

Sthaulya {Obesity}is one among the major disease of modern era, In today’s society majority people are having sedentary life style, hectic schedule, which leads to various metabolic disorders and obesity. The most important cause obesity is an energy imbalance between calories expended accumulation fat. About 13% 0f worlds adult population (11% men 15% women in 2016. Obesity may be defined as a...

Acute myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death in both developed and developing countries like India. Myocardial infarction has been recognized among younger age group more frequently in recent years. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the risk factors in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction younger than 40 years. Out of the 50 patients analyzed, 44 w...

On the other hand, it has been documented that the mortality secondary to cardiovascular disease is 10-30 times higher in chronic kidney disease patients than in the general population. This situation has been attributed to a significant increase in the prevalence of several cardiovascular risk factors: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, anemia, altered calcium-phosphorus m...

The prevalence of chronic diseases has been increasing globally for the last few decades [1-3]. Rapid urbanization and changes in the life style due to modernization have been reported to increase the risk for developing chronic diseases [4,5]. Urban people, specially in the developing countries, have sedentary life style, no scope of physical/ organized sports, unhealthy food behaviors, and ex...

The study, part of the project "Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, lipemic disorders, hypertension, obesity and diabetes mellitus in a population of the metropolitan area of the southeastern region of Brazil", had the following objectives: a) the characterization and distribution among typical human socio-economic groupings, of the prevalence of some particular habits which constitute asp...

Alternative approach to a disease conditions especially life style diseases is an emerging concept in a present scenario of modern medicine. Diabetes mellitus which is one the most dreaded life style disease condition which is spreading as an epidemic across the globe as a large number of individuals who meet the current criteria for diabetes mellitus remain asymptomatic and unaware of having t...