Relationship of lifestyle and Hypertension in administrative employees in Bojnourd rural areas

Life style is composed of a chain of active parameters in all dimensions of human life and has a substantial impression on health of population. Since vast majority of health problems has a strong relationship to life style, occurrence of many somatic and psychological disorders would be prevented provided that life style rectified. Blood pressure is one of the most important health criteria moderated when life style has been changed. The aim of this investigation was to study the cause_ effect relationship of life style and blood pressure in administrative employees in Bojnurd rural areas. In this descriptive-analytical (cross sectional) study 380 cases of governmental administrative employees were selected on a stratified random sampling with proportional allocation basis. The Study was conducted on 2012 in Bojnourd city of Iran. Primary data gathering tools were data recording sheet and lifestyle questionnaire. BP ≥ 90/140 were considered as hypertensive. The data analyzed in SPSS software. (V18) The life style in 3 levels of desirable, relatively desirable and undesirable estimated to be 4.58, 52.48 and 42.94 respectively. 7.4% of those studied suffered from high systolic blood pressure and 15.2% had diastolic hypertension. Blood pressure was significantly related to age, weight, height, marital status, exercise, nutrition, stress and body mass index. stress, malnutrition and obesity are among the factors influencing the incidence of hypertension. The essence of implementation of ongoing intervention programs by official bodies to change individual behaviors and lifestyle seems to be required.