The purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of acute whole body vibration training on cardiovascular risk factors in academic students. Thus, 35 students were randomly chosen from the students of Tehran Tarbiat Moalem university and were studied in 2 groups (WBVT, n= 20 & control, n= 15). The factors that were presumed to be the chief cardiovascular risk factors were measured. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and repeated ANOVA were applied at the 0.05 significance level and in SPSS 16 software. The results showed that there is no significant difference between cardiovascular risk factors of WBVT and control group subjects in pre- test. But, use of repeated ANOVA in posttest period showed significant difference between subject of control and WBVT groups. Using of post hoc tokay test indicated decrease in Total Cholesterol, Low-density Lipoprotein and Triglyceride, no difference in Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure and increase in High-Density Lipoprotein. Considering research findings, we can say that WBVT had positive effect on cardiovascular risk factors and lead to reduce in prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. Hence, a fundamental step to prevent of fatality due to cardiovascular diseases and to enhance the health-related quality of life can be WBVT performing.
