Anxiety level and cardiovascular risk in the sphere of tourism

Objective: to do research on the influence of the work environment on the situational and personal anxiety with people working in the sphere of tourism and their effect on the cardiovascular risk through physiological, laboratory and behavioral changes in the style of life. The cardiovascular risk has been studied through a questionnaire in relation to sex, age, family diseases and type of task with 173 people of average age 41.25±0.9 years old, who work in the sphere of tourism (84 (48.6%) of them: women and 89 (51.4%) men). A standardized methodology has been applied for evaluating anxiety according to the situational scale of Spielberger: 134 people, personality scale -173 people. Laboratory results also establish different correlations on the level of personality anxiety. High situational anxiety is established 2.345 (95%CI 1.160-4.737) times more frequently with people who work in an environment with a lot of noise. The physical activity and sports reliably improve anxiety indications and increase the abilities for positive perception of stress in the work environment. OP for a moderate and high situational anxiety is 2.306 (95%CI 1.143-4.653) for those who do not go in for sports. The high levels of personal anxiety are connected with the higher incidence of hypertension and hypertriglyceridemia in men. Reliable co relational dependencies of anxiety have been found out in relation to laboratory indications for over all cholesterol and blood sugar.Scripta Scientifica Medica 2009; 41(1): 49-52