Efficacy of CVD risk factor modification in a lower-middle class community in Pakistan: the Metroville Health Study.
Asia Pac J Public Health
; 15(1): 30-6, 2003.
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| ID: mdl-14620495
ABSTRACT
The Metroville Health Study aimed to reduce consumption of total cooking fats by 33%, salt by 25% and replace ghee with vegetable oil in a lower middle class urban community in Pakistan. Households (n=403) were randomly assigned to Intervention and Control groups. A baseline screening collected data on CVD risk factors, knowledge and attitudes and household consumption of cooking fats and salt. Intervention households received information about CVD and regular visits by social workers who measured cooking fats and salt and counselled cooks on the goals of intervention. Two years later, 291 households were re-screened. Intervention households reduced consumption of fats and salt compared to differences were total fat, 48% (p<0.0001); ghee, 37% (p=0.005); vegetable oil, 33% (p=0.0001); and salt, 41% (p=0.011). Household visits by trained social workers were effective in achieving reductions in consumption of cooking fat and salt in a lower class urban community.
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Comportamento de Redução do Risco
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Asia Pac J Public Health
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Paquistão