The aim of the present study was to inquire the life styles, the situations of physical activity and fitness, and the risk factors of hearth diseases of the academic and official persons activated for YYU. Pair of questionnaires was applied, the body compositions were measured via BIA method, and the tests of flexibility and strength were applied for this purpose. The results were analyzed by the SPSA program and statistical data were supplied. As a result, the life styles of the academic and official personnel found sedentary while the heart decease risk factors were found average at 73.5% of them. About smoking habituation, it's found that the 50.0% of the subjects were not consuming any of tobacco products, and about alcohol consuming the ratio was found as 75.8%. The nutrition habituations of the most of the subjects were found as moderate and that ratio didn't change about the security and the other life style habituations. Significant differences were found in favor of the academic personnel rather than the official ones and in favor of men rather than women about the heart diseases risk factors as a result of grouping the subjects according to their professions and sexes. Any significant differences were not found as the results of life styles and heart disease risk factor between the other universities in our country and the similar countries and Yüzüncü Y[inodot]l University, and also any significant differences were not found comparing with the developed country universities. As it was declared that the life styles could be ameliorated via education, those results in the universities which should be the leaders of the education, shows that the education and the life styles should not be considered in the same basket. It's determined that, those kinds of works should be expand to the other universities and the life style habitations should be a part of the given educations.

This study has been supported by YYU-Scientific Research Projects 2006-HIS (SBE)113), Van