The Relationship between Obesity and Effective Factors on Cardiovascular Health and Socio- Economic State of Male Students of Islamic Azad University- Fars Science and Research Branch

Researchers in Sport Science Quarterly

مقاله 5، دوره 2، شماره 3، آبان 2011، صفحه 29-40   

نویسندگان

M Noura؛ S.A Hosseini

Department of Physical Education, Fars Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Fars, Iran

چکیده

Field and aim: obesity is in parallel with raise in risk of a lot of disease such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and type two diabetes and has relation with lifestyle and socioe- economic state. Aim of present study was evaluation the relationship between obesity and effective factors on cardiovascular health and socio-economic state of male students of Islamic Azad university-Fars Branch Science and Technology. Research method: For this purpose 785 individuals with mean age 20.83 ± 1.72 year, height 174.50 ± 6.48 centimeter and weight 71.11 ± 12.35 kg) randomly selected among male student of Islamic Azad university-Fars Branch Science and Technology. For measure Weight and fat percentage used scale, and tape. Also socio-economic state measured by using socio-economic state evaluation questionnaire with acceptable reliability (r=0.75). For analysis of data, we used Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient. Findings: Results showed there is significant positive relationship (r=0.19, p=0.001) between body fat percentiles and resting blood pressure. Also, it is obtained a significant negative relationship between waist to hip percentile and cardiovascular fitness (r=0.23, p=0.001). But did not  observe significant relationship between obesity and socioe-conomic state (r=0.01, p=0.001).

کلیدواژه‌ها

Obesity؛ Socioe-conomic State؛ Cardiovascular Fitness؛ Physical Activity