Prevalence and clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors in rural Nepalese population aged 40-80 years

• Published in: BMC public health 2018-05, Vol.18 (1), p.677-677, Article 677
• Main Authors: Khanal, Mahesh Kumar, Mansur Ahmed, M S A, Moniruzzaman, Mohammad, Banik, Palash Chandra, Dhungana, Raja Ram, Bhandari, Pratiksha, Devkota, Surya, Shayami, Arun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Alcohol use; Alcoholic beverages; Body weight; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Clustering; Clustering of CVD risk factors; Data processing; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemia; Fruits; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Households; Hypertension; Metabolic disorders; Metabolism; Minority & ethnic groups; Mortality; Obesity; Older people; Overweight; Physical activity; Population; Population studies; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Primary care; Public health; Questionnaires; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Rural areas; Rural communities; Sampling techniques; Smoking; Statistical tests; Tobacco
• ISSN: 1471-2458; 1471-2458
• DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5600-9

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of mortality in low- and middle-income countries like Nepal. Different risk factors usually cluster and interact multiplicatively to increase the risk of developing acute cardiovascular events; however, information related to clustering of CVD risk factors is scarce in Nepal. Therefore, we aimed to determine the prevalence of CVD risk factors with a focus on their clustering pattern in a rural Nepalese population. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among residents aged 40 to 80 years in Lamjung District of Nepal in 2014. A clustered sampling technique was used in steps. At first, four out of 18 wards were chosen at random. Then, one person per household was selected randomly (n = 388). WHO STEPS questionnaires (version 2.2) were used to collect data. Chi-square and independent t-test were used to test significance at the level of p