Socio-hygienic study of risk factors of the cardiovascular disease in doctors of different professional groups, study of their attitude toward the problem of prevention

Relevance: extremely high morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases require the development of measures to combat these negative effects.The aim of the study was to establish the attitude of the 114 physicians to the problems of prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Variation statistics was used for analysis as the method.Methods and results. It was established that the majority of respondents believe that lifestyle and human efforts are the key factors for health. The main risk factors of cardiovascular diseases of respondents are: overweight, high blood pressure, sedentary lifestyle, stress. More than half of respondents did not know the target blood pressure, cholesterol, waist circumference standards, body mass index.Conclusion. This demonstrates the problem of prevention of cardiovascular disease and requires study targeted prevention programs based on evidence-based medicine.