ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to determine incidence of cardiovascular disease [CVD] risk factors [hypertension [HTN], obesity, Dyslipidemia[DLP], diabetes mellitus [DM] and smoking] in Oskoo. This study was planned according to WHO protocol [WHO CVD-risk management package for low and medium-resource settings] and named [East Azerbaijan healthy heart program]. The pilot study of this program was done in Oskoo in 2007-2009. In this study, demographic data and CVD risk factors of 37, 329 adults aged>30 years old living in Oskoo were collected. In addition, blood samples of 17, 388 adults>40 years old were taken [free of charge] for assessment of serum glucose and lipid profile. The study covered 93.52% of Oskoo town population aged>30 years old. We studied 18637 male [M] [91.50% coverage] and 18692 female [F] [95.52% coverage] participants. The incidence of HTN [SBP>140 and DBP>90 mmHg] was 16.25% [M:15.08%, F: 17.29%], pre-hypertension [SBP-120-139 and DBP-80-89 mmHg] -37.78% [M:41.38%, F:34.18%], DM [fast blood glucose [FBS]>126mg/dl] was 7.45% [M:6.35%, F:8.54%], smoking was 9.40% [M: 17.00%, F:1.57%], hypercholesterolemia [>200mg/dl] was 47.64% [M:42.46%, F:52.81%] and obesity [body mass index [BMI] >27] was 50.47% [M:38.79%, F:62.09%]. Considering high incidence of CVD risk factors [except smoking] in Oskoo adults >30 years, it is recommended that this pilot study expanded to all of East Azerbaijan. Free of charge taking blood samples from people > 40 years to evaluate lipid profile and glucose levels is worthy to early detecting the prevalent