Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Taxi Drivers in Yazd, Iran, 2016
Publish place: Journal of Community Health Research، Vol: 6، Issue: 4
Publish Year: 1396
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Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death in the world.Taxi drivers are a high risk group for developing cardiovascular diseases, due toexposure to unhealthy working conditions. The aim of this study was to assessthe prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among taxi drivers.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 on 110 taxi driversthat were selected by a simple random sampling method. Prevalence ofdyslipidemia, obesity, smoking, hypertension and diabetes were estimated.Descriptive statistics and the extended Fisher exact test were used for dataanalysis.Results: In this study, all participants were male, with mean age and experienceof 46.4±11.6 and 11.3±8.8 years, respectively. Among all subjects, 89.1% had atleast one risk factor, 30% two risk factors, 22.7% three risk factors, 14.5% fourrisk factors, and 4.5% five risk factors. This study showed that prevalence ofhypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and smoking among subjects were 35.5, 10,66.4 and 12.7, respectively. Also 45.45% and 25.45 % of individuals wereoverweight and obese, respectively.Conclusion: The results of this study showed a high prevalence of cardiovascularrisk factors (especially low HDL-C) among taxi drivers.However, trainingcourses for lifestyle modification can potentially be effective in preventing theoccurrence of cardiovascular diseases in these people.
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Vida Rezaei Hachesu
Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Shadi Naderyan Feli
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi
Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran