Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6
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%) we...
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| author | Ritu Dhabriya Mukta Agrawal Rajeev Gupta Indu Mohan Krishna Kumar Sharma |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0517012e6d87482baa42569f025d41162022-12-21T18:13:43ZengElsevierIndian Heart Journal0019-48322015-07-0167434735010.1016/j.ihj.2015.03.011Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6Ritu Dhabriya0Mukta Agrawal1Rajeev Gupta2Indu Mohan3Krishna Kumar Sharma4Department of Home Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, IndiaDepartment of Home Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, IndiaDepartment of Medicine, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur 302017, IndiaDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, RUHS College of Medical Sciences, Jaipur 302023, IndiaDepartment of Medicine, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur 302017, IndiaBackground: 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483215000784Cardiovascular epidemiologyEthnic groupsDiabetes |
| spellingShingle | Ritu Dhabriya Mukta Agrawal Rajeev Gupta Indu Mohan Krishna Kumar Sharma Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 Indian Heart Journal Cardiovascular epidemiology Ethnic groups Diabetes |
| title | Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 |
| title_full | Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 |
| title_fullStr | Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 |
| title_short | Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6 |
| title_sort | cardiometabolic risk factors in the agarwal business community in india jaipur heart watch 6 |
| topic | Cardiovascular epidemiology Ethnic groups Diabetes |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483215000784 |
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