Fatores de risco para doenças näo-transmissíveis em área metropolitana na regiäo sul do Brasil: prevalência e simultaneidade / Risk factors for non communicable diseases in a metropolitan area in South of Brazil: prevalence and simultaneity

Três quartos da mortalidade no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) ocorrem por doenças näo transmissíveis. Dentre elas as doenças cardiovasculares, por si só, correspondem a 35 por cento das causas de morte. Para avaliar a prevalência de fatores de risco para essas doenças, foi realizado inquérito domiciliar no período de 1986/87. Foram entrevistados 1.157 indivíduos entre 15-64 anos, residentes em setores censitários de 4 áreas docente-assistenciais do Município de Porto Alegre, RS. A prevalência padronizada de tabagismo foi de 40 por cento, hipertensäo 14 por cento, obesidade 18 por cento, sedentarismo geral 47 por cento e consumo excessivo de álcool, 7 por cento. Trinta e nove por cento da amostra acumulavam dois ou mais desses cinco fatores de risco, somente 22 por cento de homens e 21 por cento de mulheres näo apresentaram esses fatores de risco. As elevadas freqüências e concomitâncias desses fatores de risco alertam para sua importância em programas que visam a prevençäo das doenças näo-transmissíveis

Socioeconomic distribution of noncommunicable disease risk factors in urban Brazil: The case of Porto Alegre

The study reported here sought to assess the degree to which the prevalences of five risk factors for noncommunicable diseases- hypertension, smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and excessive alcohol consumption- varied individually and in combination for urban Brazilians with differing socioeconomic status in terms of educational achievement, income, and social class. For this purpose 1986-1987 data from a cross-sectional household survey of 1 157 randomly selected adults 15-64 years of age residing in the major Brazilian city of Porto Alegre were analized. In general, it was found that less privileged socioeconomic situations tended to be associated with higher risk factor prevalences. However, this was not the case for obesity and sedentary lifestyle among men, and may not have been the case with respect to hypertension among women. When the effects of education, income, and social class were considered simultaneously, higher risk factor prevalences were most strongly associated with low educational attainment. Important exceptions to this rule were found for smoking among women and excessive alcohol consumption among men, where higher risk factor prevalences were most associated with social class. Once the effects of education and social class were accounted for, income generally tended to be associated with lower prevalences of the risk factors studied

Sal y tensión arterial en Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil / Salt and blood pressure in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Salt and blood pressure in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Se publica en ingles en: Bull. Pan Am.Health Organ 24(2)