The Most Frequent Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Brazilian Aged 80 Years or Older

Abstract

To identify the most frequent cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) in Brazilian participants. Sample of 113 individuals aged 80 to 95 years (83.4 + 2.9 years), of both sexes, from Presidente Prudente, São Paulo state. Waist circumference (WC), body mass index, percentage of total body fat (% BF), hypertension, total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides, and glucose were used for characterization of risk factors. The chi-square test was used to assess proportions of risk factors and Student's t test to compare the results between the sexes. High prevalence of risk factor was observed, mainly hypertension (67.3%) and % BF (79.6%). Male participants presented higher weight, height, and WC (p < .001), and female participants, higher TC and % BF (p < .001). Only 7.1% of male and 4.2% of female participants showed no risk factors, and 71.3% of male and 85.9% of female participants had three or more. The participants presented a high prevalence of CRFs, particularly percentage of body fat and hypertension, and, in addition, female participants also presented TC.

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“…Alterations in fasting glycaemia in subjects with cardiovascular risk were found, in agreement with other studies of the elderly 27,28 . In a review of literature it was observed that diabetic individuals had a three to four times greater risk of suffering a cardiovascular event and twice the risk of dying from this event than the general population 29 .…”

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“…34 The study of Zaitune et al, with individuals aged 60 years or over, found a prevalence of 51.8% of hypertensive subjects 35 and the study of Gomes et al, with individuals aged 80 years or over observed a prevalence of 67.3%. 27 However, the prevalence of hypertension in elderly individuals with excess of body fat was higher in the present study. This finding is consistent with the study of Feijão et al with adults aged 30 years and over that found a strong association between hypertension and overweight (OR = 1.59), and obesity (OR = 2.4).…”

“…25 In Brazil, the prevalence had a very similar value (66.6%) in individuals of the same age 26 , however, this prevalence was lower in a recent study, conducted with individuals aged 80 or over (51.3%). 27 Despite the direct relationship between risk factors and mortality observed in almost all populations, in older seniors, such as in those aged 80 years or over, this relationship does not present the same association. Iversen et al, observed that the risk of incidences of coronary heart disease associated with hypercholesterolemia, decreases with age in a healthy population.…”

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“…The prevalence and incidence of obesity have become a major public health problem over the past decades (Kopelman, 2000). Obesity is an important risk factor for many chronic diseases (Gomes et al, 2013;Hjartaker et al, 2008;Matsuda and Shimomura, 2014;Yilmaz and Younossi, 2014). Therefore, prevention and therapy of obesity would be beneficial for decreasing disease desirable or therapeutic programs early in life (Farook et al, 2015;Loprinzi et al, 2015).…”