Association between health behaviours and cardiometabolic dysregulation: a population-based survey among healthy adults in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the association between cardiometabolic dysregulation, an integral component of allostatic load, and health risk behaviours (HRBs) of the Hong Kong healthy adult population.

Design

Secondary analysis of cross-sectional anonymous data.

Setting

Data on sociodemographics, self-reported health status, HRBs and biomarkers were extracted from the Hong Kong Population Health Survey 2014/2015.

Participants

One thousand five hundred and fifty-one participants aged 18-64 years without self-reported diagnoses of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment or cancer.

Primary outcome measures

Cardiometabolic dysregulation index (CMDI), ranging from 0 to 6, was calculated by counting the number of

SUBMITTER: Yu EYT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273464 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature