Prevalência de alguns fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares na população adulta do município de Quirinópolis-GO

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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Objective: To determine and to describe the prevalence of some risk factors for cardiovascular disease and its association, in the Quirinópolis adult population, with the purpose of subsidizing intervention programs and the local risk factors surveillance. Methods: It was done a crossectional based-population study including people aged 15 and more, from urban and rural region. The data was obtained through a standardized questionnaire that included blood pressure and anthropometrics measures in the household and the laboratorial tests. Results: A sample of 714 people was used and 55,3% were women. The prevalence of Hypertension was: 38,8%; Diabetes: 6%; Self-reported hypertension and Diabetes: 21% and 5%; Overweight: 46,5%; Large waist circumference: 48,7%; Smoking: 23,1%; Risk alcohol intake: 13,2%; Leisure-time physical inactive: 76,4%; High level Cholesterol and triglycerides: 16,7% and 12,2%. The obesity, physical inactive and waist circumference prevalence were higher in women. The other risk factors were higher in men. The prevalence of the most risk factors increased with age, as well as the number of simultaneous factors, especially in the hypertensive people. It was also found an association between educational level, income and most of the risk factors. The masculine sex, age, overweight and obesity, waist circumference, diabetes, cholesterol and triglycerides were associated with hypertension on the simple analysis, but after logistic regression analysis, the factors remained were age, waist circumference and glycemia (diabetes). Conclusion: The prevalence of most risk factors was very high. The difference between the self-reported hypertension and diabetes prevalence and the ones found by measures shows that people are unaware of their health problems. These found aim to the necessity of reorganizing the local health system in all levels and developing intervention programs ant the same time of a risk factors surveillance system.

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hipertensão saude publica risk factors hypertension doenças cardiovasculares - fatores de risco noncommunicable diseases doenças não transmissíveis

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