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October 8, 2007Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen Access

Educational status and cardiovascular risk profile in Indians

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Why the study?

Does educational status predict the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Indian industrial populations?

Population

19,969 employees and their family members aged 20-69 years from 10 medium-to-large industries in highly…

Comparison

Educational status vs Comparison across different educational strata

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

KRK. Srinath ReddyDPDorairaj PrabhakaranPJPanniyammakal Jeemon

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Overview

May support education-targeted screening in Indian industrial workers; leaves open causal pathways and generalizability beyond this cross-sectional sample.

Structured PICO

Does educational status predict the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Indian industrial populations?

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Population
19,969 employees and their family members aged 20-69 years from 10 medium-to-large industries in highly urban, urban, and periurban regions of India. Mean age 39.8 years.
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Intervention
Educational status (stratified into four categories from no formal education to graduates plus)
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Comparator
Comparison across different educational strata
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Outcome
Prevalence of behavioral, clinical, and biochemical risk factors of coronary heart disease (tobacco use, hypertension, diabetes, overweight, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome)surrogate

Lower educational status is associated with a higher prevalence of tobacco use and hypertension in Indian industrial populations, highlighting the growing vulnerability of lower socioeconomic groups to coronary heart disease.

Limitations

  • Study population was mainly composed of industrial employees and may not be representative of the general population

Cite This Study

Reddy et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a838699b59abb3f3b3072cbhttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0700933104
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