Assessment of the Risk of Cardio-Vascular Diseases Among Male Workers of Textile Industries

The present study was undertaken to probe through the prevalence of various risk factors of CVD among male workers of textile industries. One hundred and fifty male textile industry workers aged 20-40 years were studied. Results of the study reveal that nutritional risk factors i.e. increased body weight, high BMI, high WHR and unhealthy dietary habits like excessive intake of fried fatty foods, fast foods, coffee/tea increased the risk of CVD among the workers owing the high prevalence of these risk factors in high risk group subjects as compared to low risk group. Additionally the non-nutritional risk factors like high blood pressure, faster pulse rate, positive family history of CVD, lack of physical activity, stress were also present exclusively in high risk group subjects than in low risk group subjects. Thus it can be concluded that nutritional and non-nutritional risk factors play an important role in developing the risk of CVD, and hence the textile mill workers need to be better informed of their risk of CVD in order to respond better to preventive health advice.