Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Cuba, the monitoring of them is an important element to alert health care system on its evolution. <br />The <strong>aim</strong> of this study was to describe the prevalence of four of the most important risk fa...
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doaj-e4ddf59804af4ee59eaafec47f3b80462021-08-27T02:16:48ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2011-04-0182117120580Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN IIMikhail Benet Rodríguez0Alain Morejón Giraldoni1Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito2Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez3Dania Peraza Alejo4Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García5Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Hospital General Universitario "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima". Cienfuegos.MINSAPCentro Provincial de Higiene y Epidemiología. Cienfuegos.Hospital General Universitario "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima". Cienfuegos.Chronic diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Cuba, the monitoring of them is an important element to alert health care system on its evolution. <br />The <strong>aim</strong> of this study was to describe the prevalence of four of the most important risk factors for these diseases during the preliminary data of the second survey of Cienfuegos CARMEN project, with emphasis on the differences with the first survey results. <strong><br />Method</strong>: Preliminary results of the second CARMEN survey are presented, corresponding to the first (847) cases measured integrally from a probabilitic and representative sample of the adult population of Cienfuegos City. Studied variables included: hypertension; obesity, measured by the body mass index, smoking and diabetes mellitus. <strong><br />Results</strong>: 33.7% of interviewed persons were smokers, slightly lower than the first measurement, obesity BMI> = 30 kg/m2 was 18.8%, almost 8% higher than the baseline survey, the arterial hypertension to 35.5% and diabetes mellitus to 6.8%, both well above the measurement of 2001-2002. <strong><br />Conclusions</strong>: the risk factors discussed show that the problem after improving over the past 10 years, and generally worsens the values are much higher than those observed during the first measurement CARMEN.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1166factores de riesgoenfermedad crónicadiabetes mellitustabaquismo |
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Mikhail Benet Rodríguez Alain Morejón Giraldoni Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez Dania Peraza Alejo Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García |
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Mikhail Benet Rodríguez Alain Morejón Giraldoni Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez Dania Peraza Alejo Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II Medisur factores de riesgo enfermedad crónica diabetes mellitus tabaquismo |
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Mikhail Benet Rodríguez Alain Morejón Giraldoni Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez Dania Peraza Alejo Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García |
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II |
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II |
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II |
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II |
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II |
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risk factor to chronic disease no transmitted in cienfuegos, cuba 2010. preliminaries results of carmen ii |
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos |
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1727-897X |
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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Cuba, the monitoring of them is an important element to alert health care system on its evolution. <br />The <strong>aim</strong> of this study was to describe the prevalence of four of the most important risk factors for these diseases during the preliminary data of the second survey of Cienfuegos CARMEN project, with emphasis on the differences with the first survey results. <strong><br />Method</strong>: Preliminary results of the second CARMEN survey are presented, corresponding to the first (847) cases measured integrally from a probabilitic and representative sample of the adult population of Cienfuegos City. Studied variables included: hypertension; obesity, measured by the body mass index, smoking and diabetes mellitus. <strong><br />Results</strong>: 33.7% of interviewed persons were smokers, slightly lower than the first measurement, obesity BMI> = 30 kg/m2 was 18.8%, almost 8% higher than the baseline survey, the arterial hypertension to 35.5% and diabetes mellitus to 6.8%, both well above the measurement of 2001-2002. <strong><br />Conclusions</strong>: the risk factors discussed show that the problem after improving over the past 10 years, and generally worsens the values are much higher than those observed during the first measurement CARMEN. |
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factores de riesgo enfermedad crónica diabetes mellitus tabaquismo |
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