The levels and trends of metabolic risk factors in the elderly population at the national and sub-national scale in Iran from 1990 to 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Describing the trends of metabolic risk factors (MRFs) in the elderly population.

Methods

We used modeled data from previous comprehensive systematic reviews for MRFs among adults aged ≥ 60 years. Two stages of age-specific Spatio-temporal modeling and Gaussian process regression were used to estimate the mean of MRFs. We used crosswalk modeling to estimate the prevalence of elevated and raised Total cholesterol (TC), overweight/obesity and obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. Estimates were analyzed based on combinations of sex, age, year, and province from 1990 to 2016.

Results

Comparing prevalence estimates from 2016 with those of 1990, in the elderly population, the age-standardized prevalence of overweight/obesity, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension incr

SUBMITTER: Shokri Varniab Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638250 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature