Prevalence of risk factors in elderly cardiovasclar users of the Unified Health System in Goiânia-GO / Prevalência de fatores de risco cardiovasclar em idosos usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde em Goiânia-GO

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2009

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Introduction: cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are highly prevalent in and have an impact on elderly peoples morbidity and mortality which is still unknown among elderly users of the National Health System (SUS). Objective: to investigate the prevalence of CVRFs in elderly basic care users in the Goiânia, Goiás SUS. Methodology: a cross-sectional study with multi-stage sampling; a household survey of 418 people over 60 years old who were SUS basic care users in Goiânia. Socio-economic, demographic, lifestyle, weight, height, waist circumference, blood pressure and medication use data were collected. The CVRFs under investigation were arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, total obesity, central obesity, dyslipedemias, smoking, sedentarism and alcohol consumption. The Chi-square test was used to analyze associations at a 5% level of significance. Results: the prevalences for CVRFs were 80.4% for arterial hypertension, 83.3% for central obesity, 59.8% for sedentarism, 32.2% for total obesity, 23.4% for dyslipidemias, 19.1% for diabetes mellitus, 10.0% for smoking and 5.9% for alcohol consumption. As far simultaneity is concerned, 2.4% of the elderly did not present any CVRFs. The simultaneity of three or more CVRFs occurred in 65% of the elderly people in the study and was more frequent among women. Conclusion: the CVRFs occurred simultaneously in more than half of the elderly under study. The most prevalent CVRFs were arterial hypertension, central obesity and sedentarism. It is necessary to intensify health promotion and cardiovascular disease prevention strategies among elderly users of SUS basic care in Goiânia, mainly among those with CVRF simultaneity.

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1. sistema Único de saúde (sus) goiânia(go) 2. sistema cardiovascular - fatores de risco idosos 3. saúde pública 4. epidemiologia idosos ciencias da saude epidemiology national health system cardiovascular risk factors elderly epidemiologia sistema Único de saúde fatores de risco cardiovascular

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