Cardiovascular risk amongst migrant and non-migrant Greenland Inuit in a gender perspective
| Autor: | Peter Bjerregaard, Marit E. Jørgensen, Knut Borch-Johnsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Adult Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Alcohol Drinking Cross-sectional study Denmark media_common.quotation_subject Greenland Cardiovascular risk factors Immigration 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Inuits Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Sex factors Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health medicine Humans Risk factor media_common Transients and Migrants 030505 public health GREENLAND INUIT Public health Cholesterol HDL Smoking Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Feeding Behavior social sciences General Medicine Emigration and Immigration Middle Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Geography Cardiovascular Diseases Inuit behavior and behavior mechanisms population characteristics Female Food Habits 0305 other medical science geographic locations |
| Zdroj: | Bjerregaard, P, Jørgensen, M E & Borch-Johnsen, K 2007, ' Cardiovascular risk amongst migrant and non-migrant Greenland Inuit in a gender perspective ', Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 380-6 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14034940701195214 |
| ISSN: | 1651-1905 1403-4948 |
| Popis: | Aims: The effects of migration on cardiovascular risk factors are often gender specific. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the association of migration from Greenland to Denmark with cardiovascular risk factors in a gender-specific perspective. Methods: Cross-sectional population surveys among adult Inuit in Greenland and Inuit migrants in Denmark (n=1542). General Linear Models adjusted for age, smoking, diet (seal, fish, and fruit), and alcohol consumption. Results:Blood pressure was significantly higher among Inuit migrants of either sex than among the Inuit in Greenland. Among women, HDL-cholesterol concentrations were 1.59 mmol/l in Greenland and 1.83 among migrants (p1c were significantly lower among the migrants. Blood lipids, HbA1c, and obesity did not differ between men in Greenland and migrants. Smoking, diet, and alcohol consumption differed significantly among migrants and non-migrants. Adjusted for the consumption of seal meat and alcohol, the difference in HDL cholesterol for men (1.44 and 1.66 mmol/l; p=0.002) was of a similar magnitude to that of women. Conclusions: Migration was associated with cardiovascular risk factors in different ways among men and women. Some of the gender difference could be explained by dietary differences among male and female migrants and non-migrants, or in the case of HDL cholesterol by a different association with the consumption of seal meat for men and women, but a large unexplained residual remained. Overall cardiovascular risk was higher among migrant than non-migrant males, while for women some risk factors were better and some worse among the migrants. |
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