Authors
Nizal Sarraf-Zadegan, Gholamhosein Sadri, Hosein Malek-Afzali, Mehdi Baghaei, Nooshin Mohammadi-Fard, Shahnaz Shahrokhi, Hamidreza Tolooie, Masoud Poormoghaddas, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Aliakbar Tavassoli, Morteza Rafiei, Roya Kelishadi, Katayoun Rabiei, Nasrollah Bashardoost, Maryam Boshtam, Sedigheh Asgary, Gholamali Naderi, Tahereh Changiz, Alireza Yousefie
Publication date
2003/8/1
Journal
Acta cardiologica
Volume
58
Issue
4
Pages
309-320
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Description
The Isfahan Healthy Heart Programme (IHHP) is a five to six year comprehensive integrated community-based programme for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) prevention and control via reducing CVD risk factors and improvement of cardiovascular healthy behaviour in a target population. IHHP started late in 1999 and will be finished in 2005-2006.
A primary survey was done to collect baseline data from interventional (Isfahan and Najaf-Abad) and reference (Arak) communities. In a two-stage sampling method, we randomly selected 5 to 10 percent of households from randomly selected clusters.Then individuals aged ≥19 years were selected for the survey.This way, data from 12,600 individuals (6300 in interventional counties and 6300 in the reference county) was collected and stratified according to living area (urban vs. rural) and different age and sex groups. The samples underwent a 30-minute interview to …
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