Inactivity as a risk for CVD
If you a risk factor, it does not mean you will automatically get CVD (Cardiovascular Disease) but the more risk factors you suffer from the more likely it is for you to suffer from CVD later in life unless you are motivated enough to change your lifestyle to a much balanced and healthy lifestyle. But not every risk factor is able to be modified by you deciding to life a better life.
These are some non-modifiable risk factors for CVD:
• Age: as a person gets older the heart goes under minimal physiologic changes, even if there is not a disease presented in the medical record; the aged heart relaxes less between the pumps and therefore the 4 chambers (right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle) become firmer and might not work as …show more content…
It will be tested two times a day before and after eating.
Questionnaire
1) Has your GP ever inferred that you have a heart condition?
2) Have your GP ever recommended you to do some physical activity? And why?
3) When you practise physical activity do you feel dizzy, suffocated, or pain in your chest?
4) Have you suffered from high blood pressure?
5) Are you currently on any medication? If yes, what are you taking and why?
6) (For the women) Are you currently pregnant or have you give birth in the last 6 months?
7) How old are you?
8) How many hours do you spend doing physical activity per week? (0-1h, 2-3h, 4-5h, 6-7h, 8-9h, 10 +)
9) How many hours do you sleep at night? (0-1h, 2-3h, 4-5h, 6-7h, 8-9h, 10 +)
To choose my participants I am going to use the systematic sampling method, so I would be identifying different types of people that could make up my target population and then I will work out the proportions that I need for my research to be representative using this formula:
Sample size for each strata= (total sample size ÷ population size) × larger
If you a risk factor, it does not mean you will automatically get CVD (Cardiovascular Disease) but the more risk factors you suffer from the more likely it is for you to suffer from CVD later in life unless you are motivated enough to change your lifestyle to a much balanced and healthy lifestyle. But not every risk factor is able to be modified by you deciding to life a better life.
These are some non-modifiable risk factors for CVD:
• Age: as a person gets older the heart goes under minimal physiologic changes, even if there is not a disease presented in the medical record; the aged heart relaxes less between the pumps and therefore the 4 chambers (right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle) become firmer and might not work as …show more content…
It will be tested two times a day before and after eating.
Questionnaire
1) Has your GP ever inferred that you have a heart condition?
2) Have your GP ever recommended you to do some physical activity? And why?
3) When you practise physical activity do you feel dizzy, suffocated, or pain in your chest?
4) Have you suffered from high blood pressure?
5) Are you currently on any medication? If yes, what are you taking and why?
6) (For the women) Are you currently pregnant or have you give birth in the last 6 months?
7) How old are you?
8) How many hours do you spend doing physical activity per week? (0-1h, 2-3h, 4-5h, 6-7h, 8-9h, 10 +)
9) How many hours do you sleep at night? (0-1h, 2-3h, 4-5h, 6-7h, 8-9h, 10 +)
To choose my participants I am going to use the systematic sampling method, so I would be identifying different types of people that could make up my target population and then I will work out the proportions that I need for my research to be representative using this formula:
Sample size for each strata= (total sample size ÷ population size) × larger