Churches as targets for cardiovascular disease prevention: comparison of genes, nutrition, exercise, wellness and spiritual growth (GoodNEWS) and Dallas County populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We compared cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (CVRFs) of community-based participatory research (CBPR) participants with the community population to better understand how CBPR participants relate to the population as a whole.

Methods

GoodNEWS participants in 20 African-American churches in Dallas, Texas were compared with age/sex-matched African-Americans in the Dallas Heart Study (DHS), a probability-based sample of Dallas County residents. DHS characteristics were sample-weight adjusted to represent the Dallas County population.

Results

Despite having more education (college education: 75 versus 51%, P< 0.0001), GoodNEWS participants were more obese (mean body mass index: 34 versus 31 kg/m(2), P< 0.001) and had more diabetes (23 versus 12%, P< 0.001) and h

SUBMITTER: Powell-Wiley TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3580052 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature