Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. This observation is linked to the adoption of poor lifestyles combined with other factors, namely hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, tobacco, sedentary lifestyle and poor food hygiene. Screening and management of risk factors is a crucial step in the disease prevention strategy. To determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk in a population of Tunisian workers.

Methods: Prospective cross-sectional descriptive study including a population of Tunisian workers from Grand Tunis who had an interrogation, physical examination and biological assessment over a period of 6 months from June 2022 to November 2022 was carried out. Data analysis was done by SPSS 23.0 software.

Results: A total of 262 subjects were included whose 154 men (58.8%), sex ratio 0.7. The mean age was 40 years ±10.5. Employees who had a personal history of CV disease presented 23.3% of the population with 23 diabetics (8.8%), 26 dyslipidemics (9.9%), 17 hypertensives (6.5%). Employees who had an administrative position represented 60.3%. In 40.5%, they had a normal corpulence, 37.8% were overweight and 21.8% were obese. The waist circumference (TT) was high in 150 cases (57.3%). A metabolic syndrome was found in 58 cases or 22.1%. Our population had a high risk of cardiovascular disease in 15 cases (5.7%) and a moderate risk in 37 cases (14.1%). A significant predominance of different levels of CV risk in men and smokers with p <10-3 was found. A significant relationship was found between high to moderate risk and personal history of CV disease (p <10-3; O= 6.7; CI95% [3.493-12.695]), diabetes (p <10-3), dyslipidemia (p=0.009) and hypertension (p <10-3), snoring (p=0.011; OR=2.7; CI95% [1.230-5.744] and metabolic syndrome (p <10-3; OR=9.4; CI95% [4.850-18.419]).

Conclusion: Our study showed an average prevalence of cardiovascular risk predicting a future rise in cardiovascular disease. The need for a monitoring program within occupational health is beneficial to screen, manage and prevent disease complications.