Lifestyle Score and Risk of Hypertension in the Airwave Health Monitoring Study of British Police Force Employees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggest that promoting a combination of healthy lifestyle behaviors instead of exclusively focusing on a single behavior may have a greater impact on blood pressure (BP). We aimed to evaluate lifestyle factors and their impact on the risk of hypertension and BP.

Methods

We analyzed cross-sectional health-screening data from the Airwave Health Monitoring Study of 40,462 British police force staff. A basic lifestyle-score including waist-circumference, smoking and serum total cholesterol was calculated, with a greater value indicating a better lifestyle. Individual/combined scores of other lifestyle factors (sleep duration, physical activity, alcohol intake, and diet quality) were also developed.

Results

A 1-point higher basic lifestyle-score was ass

SUBMITTER: Aljuraiban GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10001706 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature