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Objectives: To reveal CVD risk factors in womens cohort with physical occupational activity (weavers) and compare these findings to the cohort of women with intellectual occupational activity (teachers). Methods: 136 weavers age 42 ± 2, represented a sample of 510 women working at Baku Weaving Factory (BWF). 136 women at the same age represented a sample of 667 teachers working at State Pedagogical University (SPU). Questionnaires for cardiovascular risk factors (interview), anthropometric measures, sitting blood pressure (BP),body mass index (BMI),ECG, fasting blood samples for cholesterol and glucose measurements were obtained. Results: All female were non smokers. BWF female had lower prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG)(19,5% [n = 16] vs 29,2 % [n = 24]). Prevalence of impaired fasting glucose, high total cholesterol level and LDL-C, low HDL-C, high triglycerides level were more common in women of SPU than in women of BWF. Hypertension (38,2% [n = 52] vs 32,3% [n = 44];) and pre-hypertension (30,8% [n = 42] vs 23.5% [n = 32]) were significantly more common in SPU cohort than in the BWF cohort. BMI (79,4% 108]) vs 72,8% [98]) was lower in women represented BWF than in women represented SPU. Overweight and obesity in women of SPU associated with increased BP,total cholesterol, high level of LDL-C, high level of triglycerides, IFG, and low HDL-C. Conclusion: In comparison to cohort of women with intellectual occupational activity, cohort of women with mainly physical occupational activity had a lower prevalence of IFG, lower prevalence of dyslipidemia, lower prevalence of hypertension,pre-hypertension and lower BMI.