TY - JOUR T1 - The relationship of physical activity in middle age and cardiovascular problems in old age in retired people in Isfahan, 2006 TT - بررسی ارتباط بیماریهای قلبی عروقی در سالمندان عضو کانون بازنشستگان اصفهان با سابقه فعالیت جسمانی در دوران میانسالی 1385 JF - QHMS JO - QHMS VL - 13 IS - 2 UR - http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-167-en.html Y1 - 2007 SP - 57 EP - 63 KW - Old people; Cardiovascular diseases; Physical activity; Middle-aged N2 - Background and Aim: An important disease in the middle-aged is cardiovascular disease, including is a forwarding disease that is started in childhood and clinical effect will appeared in adults from middle-aged.From the other side on the other part, living without activity or motion cause to increase all of the main defect of mortality and risk of cardiovascular disease , become twice as much. WHO recommends : one of an important cases in preventing cardiovascular disease is doing activity for 30 minutes per day, at least this research study the relation between cardiovascular disease and background of physical activity in middle-aged period in old people membered in Isfahan retirement center. Materials and Methods: The sort of the study is a cross-sectional that its target population are old people membered in Isfahan retirement center. 255 persons were chosen by a simple random sampling. The method for gathering data was a questionnaire with 6 questions about characteristic of demography, 5 questions about cardiovascular diseases, 20 questions related to physical activity in the middle-aged period that was completed by organized interview. Results: The conclusion showed that the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in old people under examination is %32/2 and %46/7. Also, the result showed that there are statistic significant between cigarette usage and disusage from morbidity of heart disease (p=0/04) and also between morbidity and unmorbidity of hypertension and morbidity of cardiovascular disease (p M3 ER -