A comparative study on awareness of cardiovascular risk determinants among rural and urban women population of Davangere district, Karnataka, India

2016-11-03T05-30-10Z
Source: International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
Ravi Kumar, Sharan Kumar H..
Background: The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rising worldwide and it accounts for 17% of the total mortality. This acceleration in the prevalence of CVD has been attributed to the Prototype shift in lifestyle. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted for a period of one month (July 2015 to August 2015). Patient attender coming to the rural and urban hospital will be taken as study participants. Data was collected by interviewing the patient attender coming to urban as well as rural hospital by using pre tested semi-structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the results. Results: Mean age of study participants was found to be 51.01±5.9 years. About 18% of the study participants were illiterate. Rural women had more awareness in 15 out of 20 risk determinants as compared to urban women. Conclusions: The present study showed that rural women had more awareness as compared to urban women with respect to cardiovascular risk determinants.


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