[Investigation on prevalence and influencing factors of three chronic diseases in elderly adults].
OBJECTIVE
To find out the prevalence of hyperlipemia, hypertension and diabetes, and explore the primary influence factors.


METHODS
The survey consists of questionnaire and health examination on 2120 elderly adults aged above 45 year old. The possible influence factors and the primary factors in 19 factors were analyzed and screened by case-control study and logistic regression analysis.


RESULTS
This investigation showed that the prevalence rates of hyperlipemia, hypertension, and diabetes were 50.12%, 44.26% and 8.74% respectively. For hyperlipemia: monthly income, BMI, WHR, coarse food grain were primary factors. For hypertension: age, smoke, intensity, BMI, WHR were primary factors. For diabetes: family history of disease, BMI, WHR, coarse food grain, exercises were primary factors.


CONCLUSIONS
The risk factors of the three chronic diseases were obesity and unhealthy life styles, and the protective factors were coarse food grian and exercises. It's important to decrease prevalence of chronic diseases in community by controlling these risk factors.
Jiang
Ling
L
School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China.
Zhai
Cheng-Kai
CK
Liu
Yang
Y
Zuo
Hui
H
Guo
Baofu
B
Liu
Hao
H
Chen
Xuefen
X
D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008019:Life Style; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies