Association between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease risk factors in rural north India: The Solan Surveillance Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although most Indians live in rural settings, data on cardiovascular disease risk factors in these groups are limited. We describe the association between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a large rural population in north India.

Methods

We performed representative, community-based sampling from 2013 to 2014 of Solan district in Himachal Pradesh. We used education, occupation, household income, and household assets as indicators of socioeconomic position. We used tobacco use, alcohol use, low physical activity, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes as risk factors for cardiovascular disease. We performed hierarchical multivariable logistic regression, adjusting for age, sex and clustering of the health sub-centers, to evaluate the cro

SUBMITTER: Agarwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6613705 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature