Socio-economic status and behavioural and cardiovascular risk factors in Papua New Guinea: A cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) are negatively correlated with socio-economic status (SES) in high-income countries (HIC) but there has been little research on their distribution by household SES within low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Considering the limited data from LMICs, this paper examines the association between behavioural and cardiovascular risk factors and household SES in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Methods

Reported here are results of 671 participants from the 900 randomly selected adults aged 15-65 years. These adults were recruited from three socioeconomically and geographically diverse surveillance sites (peri-urban community, rural Highland and an Island community) in PNG in 2013-2014. We measured their CVD risk factors (behaviour

SUBMITTER: Rarau P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343927 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature