Aspectos socioeconômicos da concordância em casais de hipertensäo arterial, obesidade e tabagismo em uma comunidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Socioeconomic aspects of spousal concordance for hypertension, obesity, and smoking in a community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arq. bras. cardiol
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80(2): 171-186, Feb. 2003. tab, graf
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in Portuguese, English
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RESUMO
OBJECTIVE:
The present study aims to evaluate the environmental role in the distribution of hypertension, obesity, and smoking and spousal concordance for the presence/absence of these 3 cardiovascular risk factors.METHODS:
A cross-sectional study was conducted in a community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The households were randomly selected. Odds ratios were estimated to measure spousal concordance, across socioeconomic levels..RESULTS:
Overall a significant aggregation of all 3 risk factors was present. The crude odds ratio for hypertension was 1.78 (95 percentCI=1.02-3.08); for obesity, it was 1.80 (95 percentCI=1.09-2.96); and for smoking, it was 3.40 (95 percent CI=2.07-5.61). The spousal concordance for hypertension decreased significantly (p<0.001) from the lower to the higher educational level. In the case of obesity and smoking, the opposite was observed, although p-values for the linear trend were 0.10 and 0.08, respectively.CONCLUSION:
In lower socioeconomic levels, couples are more concordant for hypertension and discordant for smoking. For hypertension and smoking, education seems to be a discriminant stronger than income, but for obesity the 2 socioeconomic indicators seem to represent different aspects of the environmental determinants of risk factor distribution
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Main subject:
Smoking
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Spouses
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Hypertension
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Obesity
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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