This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Sabour H, Javidan AN, Ranjbarnovin N, Vafa MR, Khazaeipour Z, Ghaderi F, Mehrabani FK, Shidfar F. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2013;50(5):635–42. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables Hadis Sabour, MD, PhD; Abbas Norouzi Javidan, PhD; Neda Ranjbarnovin, MD; Mohammad Reza Vafa, PhD, MSPH; Zahra Khazaeipour, MD; Firoozeh Ghaderi, BSc; Fatemah Khanzadeh Mehrabani, BSc; Farzad Shidfar, PhD, MSc
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Sabour H, Javidan AN, Ranjbarnovin N, Vafa MR, Khazaeipour Z, Ghaderi F, Mehrabani FK, Shidfar F. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2013;50(5):635–42. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Aim – Perform detailed analysis of level-specific cardiometabolic risk factors in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). – Analyze association of injury level on these risk factors. Relevance – Persons with SCI have high prevalence of abnormalities in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. – These abnormalities cause adverse coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with SCI.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Sabour H, Javidan AN, Ranjbarnovin N, Vafa MR, Khazaeipour Z, Ghaderi F, Mehrabani FK, Shidfar F. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2013;50(5):635–42. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Method Cross-sectional study of 162 patients with SCI, assessing prevalence of: – Diabetes mellitus. – Dyslipidaemia. – Hypertension. – Obesity. – Smoking. Also diagnosed fasting blood sugar in 27 patients.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Sabour H, Javidan AN, Ranjbarnovin N, Vafa MR, Khazaeipour Z, Ghaderi F, Mehrabani FK, Shidfar F. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2013;50(5):635–42. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Results Total cholesterol (TC) >200: – 36 patients. Triglyceride >150: – 56 patients. Hypertension: – 2.5% of patients. Body mass index (BMI), TC, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C): – Significantly higher in patients with paraplegia than in patients with tetraplegia.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Sabour H, Javidan AN, Ranjbarnovin N, Vafa MR, Khazaeipour Z, Ghaderi F, Mehrabani FK, Shidfar F. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranians with spinal cord injury: Analysis by injury-related variables. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2013;50(5):635–42. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Conclusion Patients with paraplegia may have increased hypertension, higher BMI, and increasing levels of serum LDL-C and TC compared with those with tetraplegia. Conventional risk factors for CHD should be identified and treated in individuals with SCI.