title: Is affluent society aware of their health status?
abstract: Our study was done on 111 participants of different government institutions who were involved in the highest most responsibilities in their respective jobs. Their higher educational level, job stress, type1 personality affect a lot on their health status. Therefore, it was our concern to investigate the various health risk factors and their impacts on the health status of this study group. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, physical activity level and smoking status among the subjects. This cross-sectional study was done from July 2006 to June 2007. 2.7% of the subjects were newly diagnosed as hypertensive as well as urinary sugar was present in 3.6% of the subjects. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 24.32% and diabetes was 11.71%. Subjects who adopted regular physical exercise were less likely to develop hypertension. No significant association was found between BMI and hypertension as well as diabetes mellitus. In spite of their higher educational level, 30% of the subjects were smokers. So, regular check up of health status even in a year is necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akther
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Latif
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parveen
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kaiser
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology; D004522:Educational Status; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D008019:Life Style; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors