title: Cardiovascular health status in Chinese adults in urban areas: analysis of the Chinese Health Examination Database 2010.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The American Heart Association (AHA) recently developed definitions of cardiovascular health for adults and children based on 7 cardiovascular disease risk factors or health behaviors. We applied this new construct to examine the cardiovascular health status in adult Chinese urban residents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data of 1,012,418 subjects aged 20-65 years (55% were men; mean age, 42.4 years) who received health examination at 58 health examination centers across China was analyzed. The AHA ideal health behaviors index and ideal health factor index were evaluated among the subjects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 0.6% of male and 2.6% of female subjects met all 7 health components, and only 39.1% of the subjects met 5 or more components of ideal cardiovascular health. The prevalence of "ideal", "intermediate" and "poor" cardiovascular health was 1.5%, 33.9% and 64.6%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  About two-thirds of the adult Chinese urban population has "poor" cardiovascular health. Comprehensive individual and population-based interventions must be developed to improve cardiovascular health status in China.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. Electronic address: why46301@163.com.
authors.forename: Hai-Yun
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Zhong-Hua
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Dong-Ping
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Liu-Xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People / Q000208:ethnology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Epidemiology; Health assessment; Risk factors