Risk Factors of Ischemic Heart Disease and Risk-Related Awareness in University Students

Year 2024, Volume: 33 Issue: 1, 57 - 72, 16.07.2024

Semanur Kızılaslan , Çiğdem Samancı Tekin

https://doi.org/10.17942/sted.1430834

Abstract

Objective: Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the most fatal disease in Turkey. The present study attempted to explore IHD risk factors and risk-related awareness among university students.
Materials and Methods: We took the height, weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure measurements of 786 university students and tried to identify their IHD risk factors and risk-related awareness through a survey. The study was carried out on a public university campus over three weekends in October 2022.
Results: The findings showed that the most common modifiable IHD risk factors were poor physical activity (48.9%), smoking (30.5%), and overweight/obesity (21.5%) in our sample aged 18-35 years. Yet, the most prevalent non-modifiable risk factor was found to be familial chronic diseases (29.9%). Besides, the participants were found to have poor knowledge of IHD risk factors (8.9±2.5). Our other remarkable finding demonstrated that the male students’ knowledge of CVD was poorer than their female counterparts, although the male gender is a non-modifiable CVD risk factor.
Conclusion: Participants with a relatively high level of education, interestingly, had poor knowledge and risk awareness of IHD despite bearing a higher rate of IHD risk factors.

Keywords

heart disease risk factors, myocardial ischemia, cardiovascular diseases, university, student, healthy lifestyle

Project Number

TÜBİTAK 2209-A 1919B012107777

Üniversite Öğrencilerinde İskemik Kalp Hastalığı Risk Faktörleri ve Farkındalık Düzeyi

Abstract

Amaç: Türkiye’de iskemik kalp hastalığı en çok ölüme yol açan hastalıktır. Bu çalışmada üniversite öğrencilerinin İskemik Kalp Hastalığı (İKH) risk faktörleri ve farkındalık düzeylerinin saptanması amaçlanmıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışma 786 üniversite öğrencisi ile yürütülmüş, öğrencilerin boy, ağırlık, bel çevresi ve kan basıncı ölçümleri yapılmış ardından riskleri ve risk farkındalığını saptamaya yönelik anket formu uygulanmıştır.
Bulgular: Yaşları 18-35 (20,8±2,4) arasında değişen 786 üniversite öğrencisinden oluşan bu örneklemde, en sık görülen düzeltilebilir risk faktörleri yetersiz fiziksel aktivite (%48,9), sigara kullanımı (%30,5) ve aşırı kilolu/obez olma (%21,5) idi. Değiştirilemez faktörler açısından da ailede kronik hastalık varlığı %29,9 idi. Ayrıca katılımcıların iskemik kalp hastalığı risk faktörleri bilgi düzeyleri düşüktü (8,9±2,5). Dikkat çeken bir başka sonuç da erkek cinsiyet kalp hastalıkları açısından değiştirilemez bir risk faktörü olmasına karşın, erkek öğrencilerin kalp hastalıkları ile ilgili bilgi düzeyleri kız öğrencilerden daha düşüktü.
Sonuç: Nispeten yüksek eğitim düzeyine sahip üniversite öğrencileri, yüksek oranda risk faktörü taşımalarına rağmen, düşük bilgi seviyesi ve risk farkındalığına sahipti.

Keywords

Kalp hastalığı risk faktörleri, miyokard iskemisi, kardiyovasküler hastalıklar, sağlıklı yaşam tarzı, üniversite, öğrenci

Ethical Statement

Etik kurul onayımız mevcuttur.

Supporting Institution

TÜBİTAK

Project Number

TÜBİTAK 2209-A 1919B012107777

Thanks

Çalışmamızdaki desteklerinden dolayı TÜBİTAK'a ve anket doldurulması ve antropometrik ölçümlerin yapılmasında yer alan tüm öğrencilere teşekkür ederiz.

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