Abstract
BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. In 2010, a goal released by the American Heart Association (AHA) Committee focused on the primary reduction in cardiovascular risk.MethodsData collected from 7683 men and 7667 women aged 18–69 years were analyzed. The distribution of ideal cardiovascular health metrics based on 7 cardiovascular disease risk factors or health behaviors in according to the definition of AHA was evaluated among the subjects. The association of the socioeconomic factors on the prevalence of meeting 5 or more ideal cardiovascular health metrics was estimated by logistic regression analysis, and a chi-square test for categorical variables and the general linear model (GLM) procedure for continuous variables were used to compare differences in prevalence and in means among genders.ResultsSeven of 15350 participants (0.05 %) met all 7 cardiovascular health metrics. The women had a higher proportion of meeting 5 or more ideal health metrics compared with men (32.67 VS.14.27 %). The subjects with a higher education and income level had a higher proportion of meeting 5 or more ideal health metrics than the subjects with a lower education and income level. A comparison between subjects with meeting 5 or more ideal cardiovascular health metrics with subjects meeting 4 or fewer ideal cardiovascular health metrics reveals that adjusted odds ratio [OR, 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI)] was 1.42 (0.95, 2.21) in men and 2.59 (1.74, 3.87) in women for higher education and income, respectively.ConclusionsThe prevalence of meeting all 7 cardiovascular health metrics was low in the adult population. Women, young subjects, and those with higher levels of education or income tend to have a greater number of the ideal cardiovascular health metrics. Higher socioeconomic status was associated with an increasing prevalence of meeting 5 or more cardiovascular health metrics in women but not in men. It’s urgent to develop comprehensive population-based interventions to improve the cardiovascular risk factors in Shandong Province in China.
Highlights
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world
In 2010, a goal released by the American Heart Association (AHA) Committee focused on the primary reduction in cardiovascular risk [9]
The women had a higher proportion of 5 or more ideal health metrics compared with men (32.67 VS.14.27 %), and the proportion of participants who had 5 or more ideal health metrics significantly decreased with age (41.34, 25.19, 16.46, 12.11, and 6.44 % in the subgroup s of 18 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, and 60 to 69 years of age, respectively)
Summary
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. It’s still the most threatening disease influencing the health of the Chinese population and is expected to increase with aging of the population and further economic development [2]. In 2010, a goal released by the American Heart Association (AHA) Committee focused on the primary reduction in cardiovascular risk [9]. Recent studies have shown the low prevalence of the ideal cardiovascular health and its significant association with socioeconomic factors among adults [10,11,12,13]. Studies concerning the ideal cardiovascular health in adult are still rare in china
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