Attitudes to smoking and diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases in an open working-age urban population and their associations

Objective: To study the relationships of the attitudes towards smoking and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases in an open urban working-age population.Material and Methods. Two cross-sectional epidemiological studies of the Tyumen working-age population of men and women aged 25-64 years were performed. The studies included 1,553 people (850 men and 850 women). Representative samples (1,000 persons each) were formed by the random number method from electoral lists of individuals of both genders residing in the Central administrative district of the city of Tyumen. The response rate was 77.7%: 85.0% in men and 70.4% in women. Attitude of respondents to health in the aspects of cardiovascular diagnostics and smoking were assessed according to the results of WHO MONICA-MOPSY questionnaire "Knowledge and Attitude to One's Health". A statistical analysis was performed using STATISTICA 12.0 software. Values were considered statistically significant when P was