The Great Difficulties for our Obese and Hypertensive Patients to have Physical Activities - Abstract
Background: A sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity affects more than half of the population worldwide. Despite the burdens that obesity and diabetes imposes on our society, awareness of the cardiovascular disease as a result is poor. Thus it is important to do primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases for these individuals.
Objective: To investigate the feasibility in our daily practice of cardiovascular (CV) primary prevention in Algerian patients without established cardiovascular disease
Patients and Methods: A cohort of 517 patients mean age 58.9 ±12.2 years, of them 318 women (61.5 %), was enrolled in an observational prospective multicenter study in 2008. . The global cardiovascular risk was assessed according both to the European Score chart low risk and to the risk chart from the European Society of Hypertension. Current situation of the knowledge of the healthy lifestyle was tested
Results: We have examined these patients within the setting of hypertension, diabetes, valvulopathies, dyspnea, non cardiac surgery cardiovascular assessment, and chest pain. No physical activity in the women. Cardiovascular risk assessment of this cohort showed that European Score low risk underestimate the risk as compared to ESH risk chart and this suggests to use preferably for our patients both European Score chart high risk and the risk chart from ESH.
Conclusion: Given the already increasing numbers of obesity diabetes and hypertension in our country, we should work together with the governments to decrease the aggressive marketing of high-calorie food and to support women for physical activity.