Preventive activities of association in cardiovascular disease prevention

A major activity of Association is professional and educational symposium „Stampar days“ which consists of three parts and makes an unique component with appointed goal of prevention of cardiovascular diseases with public health campaign. One component presents active involvement of educated members of Asscociation that have been taken short version of Croatian health survey (HSA) questionnaire has been used in the door to door survey during which they have been measured blood pressure and glucose level in blood of population in rural area of town Pleternica. Assesement of differences in morbidity, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics of are also have been investigated. Within 4 years survey has taken in south eastern and south western rural parts of Pleternica and also in north eastern part. Data that were collected in Brodski Drenovac, birthplace of Andrija Stampar, one of the founders of the World health organization are processed. Results are similar those published by Milosevic et al 2003. Although alcohol consumption is higher (29, 58 units of pure alcohol) than recommended by WHO (21 units), it is almost than double lower than Croatian average in alcohol per capita consumption. No double effect for cardiovascular disease risk for men that drinks and don’t drink alcohol has been noted, but higher incidence of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia is noted in women that drinks alcohol. When tobacco smokers and non smokers data were processed results have shown that tobacco smokers have slightly more common cardiovascular diseases, and suprisingly tobacco smoking is almost than double higher than Croatian average. Although this is small sample it is representative percentage of habitants in Brodski Drenovac and therefore this results could be starting point for next preventive activities and surveys of Association