Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Background: The major cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are known: diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and smoking are associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease. Controlling these factors has been shown to help reduce the CVD risk level.Hence; we planned the present study to assess various cardiovascular disease risk factors among known population. Materials & methods: A total of 200 patients reporting to the department of cardiology for routine medical and health check-up were included in the present study. Complete demographic and clinical details of all the patients recorded. Complete medical checkup of all the patients was done. In all the patients, biochemical and hematological profile was obtained. All the results were recorded in Microsoft excel sheet and were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Diabetes, Hypertension, Smoking habit, Obesity and Dyslipidemia were the common CVD risk factors in the present study found to be present in 125%, 19%, 9%, 21% and 28% of the study population respectively. Conclusion: The authors conclude that various cardiovascular disease risk factors are present in significant proportion of population.
Key words: Cardiovascular, Risk factors.

Corresponding Author: Dr. Gurpreet Singh, DM Cardiology Resident, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Kochi,  Kerala, India

This article may be cited as: Singh G, Sharma S. Assessment of prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among known population. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2016;4(6):318-320.