Atta Muhammad.
Prevalence of elevated resting heart rate among young adults.
Pak J Rehabil Jan ;9(2):60-5.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency of elevated resting heart rate among  young adult population of ZCRS. METHODOLOGY: This cross sectional study was conducted at a private sector University with 363 participants, within age group of 18-30, under consideration. The participants underwent an assessment of heart rate at rest with pulse oximeter, height and weight by stadiometer. IBM SPSS version 20 with a Confidence interval of 95% was used for the statistical analysis. The association of elevated Resting Heart Rate and Body Mass Index was assessed. In addition to this gender association elevated were also evaluated. RESULT: The incidence of Elevated RHR with a mean of 95.30 ± 3.25 was found to be 27.04 percent. Also, 22.44 percent of participants had their heart rate with a mean heart rate of 108.40 ± 6.69 in the tachycardia category, which showed the increased risk of CVD events in the near future. In BMI's view, there was no important correlation found between RHR and BMI jointly and in individual classifications (P>0.05). CONCLUSION: The results revealed that resting heart rate was elevated among half of the population that may be a risk factor for cardiovascular events in future.

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