FREQUENCY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR BETWEEN LAWYERS AND TEACHERS.

Abstract

Objective: To compare the frequency of cardiovascular risk factor between
lawyers and teachers.
Methodology: The study was conducted by PGMI, LRH and data was collected
from lawyers and teachers working in Peshawar. Total 418 subjects were
included in this study 209 from lawyers and school teachers and sampling
technique was simple random.

Results: Total 418 subjects were recruited in this study. Two hundreds and nine
subjects were randomly selected each from lawyers and government school
teachers of districts Peshawar. Both sexes were recruited in this study. Out of 209
teachers male were 67 %( 140) and female were 33 %( 69) while lawyers were
predominantly male 99 %( 207). Out of 418 subjects 226(54.1%) were not
performing any exercise, 115(27.5%) used to perform exercise < 3 times/week
and 77(18.4%) used to do exercise > 3 times/week as shown in. There was no
statistical significance association between diabetes, hypertension and
hypercholesterolemia and profession. There was a significant association
between professional categories and saturated Trans Fat intake and Exercise.There were more lawyers 37 (17.7%) who had RBS ≥140 mg/ dl than teachers19
(9.1%) and it was statistically significant p-value 0.010.

Conclusion: Obesity was common both in teachers and lawyers but more
2 teachers had BMI≥25kg/m .
More lawyers had RBS in diabetic ranges as compared to teachers
Hypercholesterolemia was also more common in lawyers than in teachers.