Abstract
A study was done to assess the cardiac risk factors among people attending cardiac exhibition at selected hospital, Salem. Quantitative descriptive research design was used for this study. 169 people were selected by using non probability convenience sampling technique. After conducting cardiac exhibition health related data was collected from the participants along with the physiological parameters such as blood pressure, BMI, Waist-Hip ratio. It showed that 121 (71.59%) were at mild risk, 39(23.07%) at moderate risk and 9(5.32%) at severe risk for developing cardiac diseases. The chi square test was used to find out the association between cardiac risk factors among people who attended cardiac exhibition with their demographic and health related variables. The results showed that demographic variables like age, educational status, nature of job and monthly income and health related variables like blood pressure and family history of heart diseases and BMI had significant association with cardiac risk factors. Hence research hypothesis H1 was retained at p<0.05 level.
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