title: "A heart for Vienna"--the prevention program for the big city. Blue-collar workers as a special target group.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To create awareness of cardiovascular health status by screening for cardiovascular risk factors, and thereby motivate people to improve their life style habits. This was carried out in form of a project within the framework of the government prevention programme "A Heart for Vienna" focussing on urban blue-collar workers, a population at greatest risk for developing cardiovascular disease.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of hypertension, overweight, obesity, abdominal obesity and smoking were 29.7 %, 62.4 %, 16.4 %, 29.3 %, and 49.8 %, respectively. 87.6 % presented at least one of the screened cardiac risk factors. The prevalence of hypertension, overweight, obesity and abdominal obesity increased with age. Hypertension, overweight and abdominal obesity were significantly more prevalent among unskilled compared to skilled male bluecollar workers. The prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity was more than 1.5 times higher among female compared to male blue-collar workers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Blue-collar workers represent a population where health promotion and prevention of cardiovascular disease should have high priority. Within the bluecollar group itself the cardiovascular risk profile worsened with reduction in skill level.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Social Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Centre for Public Health, Vienna, Austria. thomas.dorner@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dorner
authors.forename: J George
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Fodor
authors.forename: Doris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Allichhammer
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kiefer
authors.forename: Kitty
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.forename: Monika Slovinec
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Huebel
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strunz
authors.forename: Annemarie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohnoutka
authors.forename: Gernot
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Antes
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmidl
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kunze
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rieder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001317:Austria; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002423:Cause of Death; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio