{"id":1255,"date":"2014-08-08T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2014-08-08T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:30:11","slug":"ideal-cardiovascular-health-who-has-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/food-for-thought\/ideal-cardiovascular-health-who-has-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideal cardiovascular health: who has it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation<\/a>, more than 80% of those deaths occur in low and middle income countries. In such a country, namely the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, CVD\u00a0 was responsible for 53% of all causes of death in 2010.<\/p>\n

The authors of a study we just published<\/a>, aimed to assess the prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health<\/a> and its relationship with socio-demographic characteristics of the participants. Data from 4,170 adults were taken from the National Health Survey of 2010 and assessed smoking, BMI, diet, physical activity, cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose.<\/p>\n

The results showed that only 0.02% of the participants had ideal heart health (i.e. all the above health metrics in ideal levels); 7.6% had intermediate heart health and 92.4% poor heart health. The least prevalent ideal health factor was healthy diet, while the most prevalent ideal was fasting glucose.<\/p>\n

There was better cardiovascular health status in women and young and middle aged adults. There was a statistically significant association between cardiovascular health and educational level. There was better cardiovascular health in urban dwellers, despite better health behaviours in rural settings.<\/p>\n

The authors conclude that\u00a0 public health strategies and interventions must be developed to assist individuals and population in improving their cardiovascular health.<\/p>\n

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** This study was written by Slavenka\u00a0Jankovi\u0107, Dragana\u00a0Stojisavljevi\u0107, Janko\u00a0Jankovi\u0107, Milo\u0161\u00a0Eri\u0107<\/a> and Jelena\u00a0Marinkovi\u0107<\/p>\n

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  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 80% of those deaths occur in low and middle income countries. In such a country, namely the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, CVD\u00a0 was responsible for 53% of all causes of death… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10,11],"tags":[119,134,136,271,363,372,746],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-general-public-health","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-bosnia-and-herzegovina","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-epidemiology","tag-health-behaviours","tag-health-factors","tag-republic-of-srpska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}