Why the study?
Cardiovascular diseases are a major public health concern, necessitating tools to assess cardiovascular risk to prevent CVD onset and understanding how sociodemographic variables and health habits associate with risk scales.
In Spanish healthcare workers, older age, male sex, specific job roles, smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet are strongly associated with higher estimated cardiovascular risk.
Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors were associated with higher CVR across scales; leaves open whether interventions targeting these reduce events in healthcare workers.
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are one of the major public health concerns worldwide due to their high morbidity and mortality rates. This situation has necessitated the development of tools to assess cardiovascular risk (CVR) in order to prevent the onset of CVD. The aim of this study is to assess how sociodemographic variables and health habits are associated with the values of CVR scales, such as REGICOR, SCORE2, and vascular age. Methodology: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study involving 44,939 Spanish healthcare workers, where the association between age, sex, type of work, smoking, physical activity, and Mediterranean diet with CVR scales such as REGICOR, SCORE2, and vascular age was evaluated. Results: All the variables analyzed showed an association with the occurrence of moderate-high values in all three CVR scales. Age was the variable that showed the highest odds ratio values: 13.446 (95% CI 11.16–14.77) for REGICOR, 13.90 (95% CI 12.01–15.81) for vascular age, and 14.12 (95% CI 12.01–16.23) for SCORE2. Conclusions: The profile of a healthcare worker with the highest risk of presenting moderate-high values on all three CVR scales would be a male over 60 years old, a nursing assistant or orderly, a smoker, sedentary, and with low adherence to the Mediterranean diet.
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