Comparative study of cardiovascular risk factor between military patient and non-military patient in Shahid Rajaee and Baqiyatallah hospital

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Introduction. many factors such as a diabetes, hypertension, hyper lipidemia, smoking and occupational stress are in association with atherosclerosis. Up to now there isn't and study about risk factor differences between military occupation and non millenarian. Therefore we designed this study to investigate these differences.Materials and Methods. in this cross-sectional study all patient had angiography, angioplasty or CABG in year of may 2006 to may 2008 in Baqiyatallah or Shahid rajaee hospital were investigated. We collect data by face to face questionnaire based material. Our variable include age, sex, smoking, hyper lipidemia, diabetes, psychological history, chemical weapons exposure, first line standing.Results. form 196 patient referred to Baqiyatallah and Shahid rejaee 2 patient were excluded, from 194 left, 132 (68%) were non military and 62 (32%) had military occupation. average age of CABG was 51.5 in miltaries and 57.5 in non militaries hypertension and diabetes were more common in non military occupation and smoking and psychological histories were more common in military occupation. All patent undergo CABG were male.Conclusion. in patient undergo CABG and who had chemical weapons exposure hand less average age that maybe because of military occupation and its occupational life style or because of exposure with chemical weapons that result in cardiovascular disease in lower age.

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Journal of Military Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 2 - Serial Number 32
July and August 2008
Pages 137-142

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