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Health Consequences of Lake Urmia in Crisis in the Disaster Area: A Pilot Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2019

Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi ,
Mostafa Farahbakhsh ,
Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani ,
Hossein Mashhadi Abdolahi ,
Zeinab Nikniaz ,
Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi  and
Leila Nikniaz
Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi
Affiliation:
Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Mostafa Farahbakhsh
Affiliation:
Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani
Affiliation:
Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Hossein Mashhadi Abdolahi
Affiliation:
Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Zeinab Nikniaz
Affiliation:
Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi
Affiliation:
Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Leila Nikniaz*
Affiliation:
Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Leila Nikniaz, NPMC, Tavanir Exit, Valiasr St., Tabriz, Iran (e-mail: nikniazleila@gmail.com).
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Abstract

Objective:

This study investigated the health effects of Lake Urmia’s drought on adjacent urban and rural areas and people.

Methods:

The data for sociodemographic status, physical activity, dietary pattern, smoking, and angina of the subjects living in areas adjacent to and far from Lake Urmia were collected through validated questionnaires. Physical examinations, including blood pressure, anthropometrics, and biochemical measurements, were performed.

Results:

There were no significant differences between 2 areas in the case of age, sex, educational, and physical activity and smoking status (P > 0.05). The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures and the prevalence of hypertension, prehypertension, and anemia in cases living in the adjacent areas were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). No significant differences were observed between 2 districts in the prevalence of hyperlipidemia, overweight/obesity, asthma, angina, infraction, diabetes, and vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency.

Conclusions:

Our data showed that Lake Urmia’s drought has serious effects on hypertension and anemia. More longitudinal and well-designed studies are needed to confirm these results.

Keywords

anemiahealthhypertensionLake Urmia crisisnon-communicable disease
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , August 2020 , pp. 442 - 448
Copyright
© 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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