Cardiovascular Disease
New cardiovascular disease research from C. Power and colleagues discussed
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 5th, 2009
Researchers in London, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To establish whether social differences in multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease are due to a greater strength of association (higher correlation) between risk factors in less advantaged groups. Co-occurrence of five risk factors (smoking, hypertension, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, obesity, diabetes) in 3614 British 45-year-old men and 3560 women in the manual and non-manual social groups."
"4.0% of women in manual groups had >= 3 risk factors compared with 1.7% in non-manual groups: 6.2% and 3.4% respectively for men. There was a higher than expected percentage of the population,...
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