Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Agarwal business community in India: Jaipur Heart Watch-6.

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, hy

SUBMITTER: Dhabriya R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4561780 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature