Satyendra Mishra, Jagrati Kiran Naagar, Anju Jha, Nitu Mishra, Talha Saad, Mohammad ilyas

ASSESSEMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AND BMI AMONG PROFESSIONAL COMMERCIAL DRIVERS IN SAGAR DISTRICT OF CENTRAL INDIA: A CROSSECTIONAL STUDY.

  • Community and Home Care
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Strategy and Management
  • Drug Discovery
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Pharmacology
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Medicine
Save to CiteDrive Show PDF

Introduction : The commercial professional drivers are at risk of developing diabetes, hypertension and obesity due to the nature of their work as they tend to go early, work for many hours , have irregular dietary habits and sleep pattern and sedentary lifestyle.The study sought to determine the known risk factors in order to better clarify the burden of this health issue in Sagar district of Central India. A crossectional descriptive and analytical study was conducte Method : d among 496 commercial professional drivers and blood sugar, blood pressure and height and weight was measured . The life style related risk factors were assessed using semistructured questionnaire and also dietary pattern was assessed. The student T test and Chisquare test were used for statistical analysis. The youngest person was 22 Results: years old and oldest was 66. The mean age was 39.55±12.53 years. The mean number of years for which they were in job was 17.5 ± 9.62 and they worked for a mean duration of 13.56 ± 2.87 hours. The other risk factors found was alcohol intake and smoking,irregular dietary pattern, lack of physical activity and sleep. There is a need for intervention to promote a heal Conclusion: thy life style and curb the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and overweight to improve the health of drivers and safety of passenger

Need a simple solution for managing your BibTeX entries? Explore CiteDrive!

  • Web-based, modern reference management
  • Collaborate and share with fellow researchers
  • Integration with Overleaf
  • Comprehensive BibTeX/BibLaTeX support
  • Save articles and websites directly from your browser
  • Search for new articles from a database of tens of millions of references
Try out CiteDrive

More from our Archive