Previous research studies have well argued that obesity and cardiovascular diseases are the main reasons for fatality indifferent societies. The purpose of the present research was to determine the relationship between body mass index and cardiovascular risk factors in inactive male students. Thus, 80 students were randomly chosen from the students of Islamic Azad University, Abhar Branch (Iran) and were studied. The BMI of subjects were recorded and the factors that were presumed to be the chief cardiovascular risk factors were measured. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were applied at the 0.05 significance level and in SPSS 16 software. The results showed that there is no significant relationship between BMI and any of the cardiovascular risk factors ( 0.05). Considering research findings, we can say that there are factors other than obesity and overweight that affect the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and they lead to most of fatalities. Further research is thus recommended to investigate the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and other possible factors to identify the factors associated with cardiovascular diseases. Hence, a fundamental step can be taken to prevent fatality due to cardiovascular diseases and to enhance the health-related quality of life
