Journal
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 563-571Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1403494814541597
Keywords
Cardiovascular; risk factors; secular trend
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Funding
- Academy of Finland [126925, 121584, 124282, 129378, 117787, 41071]
- Social Insurance Institution of Finland
- Kuopio
- Tampere
- Turku University Hospital Medical Funds [9M048, 9N035]
- Orion-Farmos Research Foundation
- Juho Vainio Foundation
- Paavo Nurmi Foundation
- Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1037559]
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Aims: Cardiovascular risk factor levels in 2011 and 4-year changes between 2007 and 2011 were examined using data collected in follow-ups of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Methods: The study population comprised 2063 Finnish adults aged 34-49 years (45% male). Lipid and blood pressure levels, glucose and anthropometry were measured and life style risk factors examined with questionnaires. Results: Mean total cholesterol level in 2011 was 5.19 mmol/l, low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol 3.27 mmol/l, high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol 1.33 mmol/l, and triglycerides 1.34 mmol/l. Using American Diabetes Association criteria, Type 2 diabetes (T2D) was observed in 4.1% and prediabetes (fasting glucose 5.6-6.9 mmol/l or glycated hemoglobin 5.7-6.4%) diagnosed for 33.8% of the participants. Significant changes (P < 0.05) between 2007 and 2011 included an increase in waist circumference (3.3%) in women. In both sexes, systolic (-3.0% in women, -4.0% in men) and diastolic (-3.0% in women, -3.3% in men) blood pressure and triglycerides (-3.4% in women, -6.5% in men) decreased during follow-up. Conclusions: Previously observed favorable trends in LDL-cholesterol levels have leveled off among a sample of young and middle-aged adults in Finland. Triglyceride and blood pressure levels have decreased. Over one-third of the study population had prediabetes and may be at increased risk for T2D.
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