Surveillance of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Fifth Military Sector Health Center, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon: Observational Study
| Autor: | Samuel Honoré Mandengue, Alain Serges Patrick Essam Nlo’o, Williams Bell Ngan, Bienvenu Bongue, Frédéric Roche, Luc Goethals, Lawrence Essama Eno Belinga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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cardiovascular risk
medicine.medical_specialty Population lcsh:Medicine Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Informatics 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Overweight Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine prevention soldiers Environmental health Epidemiology medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education noncommunicable disease Original Paper education.field_of_study Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test business.industry lcsh:R Odds ratio medicine.disease Obesity cardiovascular diseases Computer Science Applications Observational study medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Formative Research, Vol 4, Iss 11, p e18567 (2020) JMIR Formative Research |
| ISSN: | 2561-326X |
| DOI: | 10.2196/18567 |
| Popis: | Background Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death worldwide. They were responsible for 40 million of the 57 million deaths recorded worldwide in 2016. In Cameroon, epidemiological studies have been devoted to NCDs and their risk factors. However, none provides specific information on their extent or the distribution of their risk factors within the Cameroonian defense forces. Objective The objective of our study was to assess the cardiovascular risk of a Cameroonian military population compared with that of its neighboring civilian population. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study that involved subjects aged 18 to 58 years, recruited from October 2017 to November 2018 at the Fifth Military Sector Health Center in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. Data collection and assessment were done according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s STEPS manual for surveillance of risk factors for chronic NCDs and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Five cardiovascular risk factors were assessed: smoking, harmful alcohol consumption, obesity/overweight, hypertension, and diabetes. The risk was considered high in subjects with 3 or more of the factors. Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression were carried out according to their indications. Results Our study sample of 566 participants included 295 soldiers and 271 civilians of the same age group (median age 32 years versus 33 years, respectively; P=.57). The military sample consisted of 31 officers and 264 noncommissioned officers (NCOs). Soldiers were more exposed to behavioral risk factors than civilians, with a prevalence of smoking of 13.9% versus 4.4% (P Conclusions Cameroonian soldiers are particularly exposed to cardiovascular behavioral risk factors and consequently are at higher risk of NCDs. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04315441; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04315441 |
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