ANALYSIS OF PREVALENCE OF SELECTED CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN DANGEROUS OCCUPATIONS

Abstract

Aim. To assess the prevalence of the main cardiovascular risk factors (RF) and their concomitance in workers of highly harmful professions. Material and methods. In the study, men of dangerous professions participated, at the age 20-60 y.o.: 96 firefighters-rescuers, admitted to Russian centre of Catastrophe medicine (“Defense”, Moscow); 97 firefighters-rescuers at the central airmobile detachment “Centrospas” (Zhukovsky, Moscow region), 151 commando units of interior military forces of the Ministry of Internal affairs (Central regions of RF).Results. High prevalence of risk factors of CVD revealed: overweight and obesity — 40,7%, smoking — 47%. The relation found for lean glucose and cholesterol levels. Smokers have 37% decrease of serum iron comparing to non-smokers. Smoking also does impact transaminase level: AST increase by 31%, ALT by 46%, alkaline phosphatase by 19%, LDH by 19%. Smokers have alpha-amylase increase by 16% comparing to non-smokers. Also smokers have increased urea by 8% and creatinine by 15%. Non-smokers of any age have these parameters in normal range. Smokers have age-related changes more prominent, and in any age glucose and cholesterol levels are higher than in non-smokers. Conclusion. Smoking increases CVD risk from the point of view of the main biochemical markers of blood. These changes can be treated as an inset of protein metabolism disorders related to smoking.

Keywords

• cardiovascular diseases
• dangerous professions
• risk factors
• overweight
• obesity