Cardiovascular risk in young healthcare professionals: A cross-sectional study.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
In the last years cardiovascular risk has decreased in grown adults and elderly while it seems to be rising among young adults.OBJECTIVE:
to assess the 10-year cardiovascular risk (CVR) in young healthcare professionals at the teaching hospital in Rome, using two scores, and identify possible determinants in order to design and implement preventive strategies.METHODS:
A cross-sectional study was carried out between January 2019 and July 2020. Participants underwent medical history collection, physical examination, and blood tests. CVR was calculated using CUORE and Framingham Risk Scores. A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted having the scores as dependent variables. Diagnostic tests were used for checking model assumptions.RESULTS:
The study was carried out including 525 participants, 58.5% physicians and 32.1% nurses. Multivariate analysis was carried out only for men, since the pp plot for the whole population and for females for the dependent variables showed some evidence of non-normality, and the residual plot shows variance of the residuals was not constant across the range of fitted values. CVR, using the Framingham equation, directly correlated with age (ß = 0.260; pâ<â0.001). Using the CUORE score, qualification as a physician (pâ<â0.001) is associated with a lower risk of having a CVR, while age (pâ<â0.001) is directly proportional to this risk.CONCLUSIONS:
Increasing age consistently emerges as a prominent factor, positively influencing both the Framingham risk score and CUORE score, but this association was found only for men. Being a doctor is a protective factor for the CUORE score.
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MEDICINA OCUPACIONAL
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2024
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Italia