Women's employment does not modify the risk factors of coronary heart disease

This study examined the relationship between employment status and risk factors of coronary heart disease [CHD] in Egyptian females. Subjects were 300 pairs of middle-aged employed women and housewives who have been matched for age and educational level. Linear regression models were applied for statistical evaluation of data on blood pressure, serum lipids, oral contraceptive use, diabetes mellitus and body weight index. Cigarette smoking was excluded from analysis because of the very small proportions of smokers encountered in the two groups. Stepwise discriminant function analysis generated a model containing the total cholesterol [Tch], low density lipo-protein cholesterol [LDL] and the ratios Tch/high density lipo-protein [HDL] and LDL/HDL cholesterol. However, the derived function yielded high false classification rates in the two directions. Fitting the categorical variables and their second order interactions into a log linear model revealed the absence of significant dependency of these variables on employment status. Moreover, the multivariate analyses have shown that among the employed women, neither the duration of employment nor type of work modified the magnitude or distribution of any of the studied risk factors

study of some risk factors for hypertension in diabetic patients at Suez governorate

Three hundred and thirteen unselected persons, 150 diabetic and 163 non diabetics, aged above 30 years were surveyed in this study. Full history, complete clinical examination and analysis for blood sugar and cholesterol were done for all cases. It was found that, the prevalence of hypertension in diabetic group was 37.3% and among non diabetic it was 13.4% [P<0.001]. Diabetic female patients were affected with hypertension higher than diabetic male [39% and 23.5% respectively]. The prevalence of hypertension increased with the increase of the duration of diabetes. Also, there is a positive correlation between blood glucose level and mean systolic blood pressure. Finally, the prevalence of hypertension among obese diabetic patients was higher than obese non diabetics [p<0.05]. Also, obese diabetic female patients developed hypertension [44%] more frequent than obese diabetic male patients [21%]