Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Agarwal is one of the largest business communities in India. To determine prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and their distribution according to educational status (ES) in this community we performed a study.Methods
1781 (men 1039, women 742) of 2500 selected subjects (71.2%) were evaluated and fasting blood sample obtained in 1130.Results
Age-adjusted prevalence of risk factors was tobacco use 12.2%, sedentary habits 54.2%, overweight/obesity 54.4%, obesity 19.5%, abdominal obesity 61.2%, hypertension 36.0%, diabetes 19.2%, hypercholesterolemia ?200 mg/dl 25.8%, low HDL cholesterol 29.2%, hypertriglyceridemia 32.8% and metabolic syndrome 22.3%. Low ES subjects had significantly greater prevalence of sedentary habits, low fruit/vegetable intake, hypertension, low HDL cholesterol and diabetes.Conclusions
Cardiometabolic risk factors are highly prevalent in the Agarwal business community. Prevalence is greater in subjects with low educational status.
SUBMITTER: Dhabriya R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4561780 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6.
Dhabriya Ritu R Agrawal Mukta M Gupta Rajeev R Mohan Indu I Sharma Krishna Kumar KK
Indian heart journal 20150430 4
<h4>Background</h4>Agarwal is one of the largest business communities in India. To determine prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and their distribution according to educational status (ES) in this community we performed a study.<h4>Methods</h4>1781 (men 1039, women 742) of 2500 selected subjects (71.2%) were evaluated and fasting blood sample obtained in 1130.<h4>Results</h4>Age-adjusted prevalence of risk factors was tobacco use 12.2%, sedentary habits 54.2%, overweight/obesity 54.4%, obe ...[more]
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