1Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, K. P. C. Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
4Professor & HOD, Dept. of Community Medicine, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
*Corresponding Author: Email: saha_sanchita2000@rediffmail.com
Online published on 3 January, 2019.
Medical faculty knows CVD risk factors and their prevention very well; despite risk assessment and disease prevention efforts are lacking in this group due to their busy schedule and stress.
To assess the prevalence and types of cardiovascular risk factors among faculty members of a tertiary care teaching hospital of Kolkata.
An Institution based cross sectional study was conducted among 246 faculty members using a pre designed structured questionnaire based on WHO STEPS Instrument from 5th March-4th April, 2018.
About 94% faculty members had one or more cardiovascular risk factors and different types of cardiovascular risk factors were: male gender(67.48%), smoking(11.38%), alcohol consumption(15.04%), fast food(13.14%), junk food(11.50%)& cold drink (17.49%)intake, stress in last one year(40.65%), family history of CVD(19.51%), overweight & obesity(35.37%), pre hypertension(72.36%) & hypertension(8.94%), diabetes(9.76%), and high cholesterol.
This small special group survey adds on the risk factors prevalent in the medical set-up and thus focuses the attention of cardiovascular epidemiologist and researcher to conduct more studies.
Cardiovascular, Risk factors, Faculty
