Which health professionals are most at risk for cardiovascular disease? Or do not be a manager

• Authors: Eliska Sovova , Marie Nakladalová , Marketa Kaletova , Marketa Sovova , Lenka Radova , Michaela Kribska

Abstracts

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Objectives: Health care workers constitute a high-risk occupational category owing to the character of their work that includes high-risk environment, shift work and mental as well as physical stress. In occupational medicine, caring for their health condition should be a priority and include measures aimed at preventing cardiovascular diseases. The study aimed at determining the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in employees of a large hospital and assessing their effect on the incidence of cardiovascular events. Materials and Methods: The group comprised 3124 employees with a mean age of 36.1 years (SD = 11.4), out of whom 562 were males (mean age of 37.1 years, range: 18-72; SD = 12.26) and 2562 were females (mean age of 35.9 years, range: 18-68; SD = 11.24). At their initial examination, the employees filled in a questionnaire on basic CVD risk factors (according to valid recommendations). This was supplemented with objective data to determine the risk of CVD using valid charts. From this group, a subset of persons at a high or intermediate risk was selected, comprising 247 individuals with a mean age of 54.1 years (SD = 5.73). After 5-9 years (mean 7.24±1.38 years), they either underwent another examination or their health status was ascertained by phone or in a computer database. The end point was the incidence of cardiovascular events (sudden death, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris, percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiac failure, stroke or transient ischemic attack). Results: The end point was noted in a total of 15 males (6.07%) and 6 females (2.42%), being statistically significantly present in managers (males p < 0.00007, females p < 0.00001), male physicians/surgeons (p < 0.025), tertiary-educated males (p < 0.0095), female smokers (p < 0.015), male ex-smokers (p < 0.007), overweight or obese males (p < 0.02) and those with the waist-to-hip ratio above 1.0 (p < 0.005). Conclusions: Cardiovascular events are most likely to occur in obese male physicians/surgeons holding managerial positions and in female managers.

Keywords

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cardiovascular; event; hospital employees; risk factors

• Publisher: Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. prof. dra Jerzego Nofera w Łodzi
• Journal: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 71-77

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

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Eliska Sovova

• Department of Internal Medicine I — Cardiology, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Marie Nakladalová

• Department of Occupational Medicine, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Marketa Kaletova

• Department of Internal Medicine I — Cardiology, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Marketa Sovova

• Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Lenka Radova

• Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Michaela Kribska

• Department of Occupational Medicine, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13382-014-0228-1

Biblioteka Nauki

2178788