title: [Television viewing and cardiovascular risk behaviors in the adult population of the French West Indies].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Recent studies have shown a link between prolonged television viewing and cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. We aimed to estimate the relationship between television viewing and CV risk behaviors and in the adult population of the French West Indies.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used data from Consant, a cross-sectional study carried out in 2007 on a representative sample of the adult Guadeloupean population (1005 subjects aged 25-74 years selected by stratified random sampling and interviewed at home by trained investigators working in pairs).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among respondents who reported watching television for 2 hours or more per day, 46.5% stated practicing no leisure time physical activity, compared with 35.6% among those who reported watching television for less than 2 hours per day. Adjusting for age, sex, education, income, family status, and perceived CV benefits of physical activity, the odds ratio of physical inactivity was estimated at 1.75 (P<10(-3)) among subjects who reported watching television for 2 hours or more per day, compared with other subjects. A similar relationship was observed when considering dieting to prevent weight gain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this representative sample of a French Caribbean population, a strong and very significant relationship was observed between prolonged television viewing and CV risk behaviors. Prolonged television viewing seems common to a lifestyle that is characterized by little physical activity and unhealthy eating habits. This may play a role in social inequalities observed in CV diseases.
authors.affiliation: Département de médecine générale, faculté de médecine Hyacinthe-Bastaraud, université des Antilles et de la Guyane, campus universitaire de Fouillole, BP 250, 97157 Pointe-à-Pitre cedex, Guadeloupe. philippe.carrere@gmail.com
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carrère
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atallah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kelly-Irving
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Inamo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004493:Education; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D019430:Guadeloupe; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D013690:Television
keywords: Adult; Adulte; Antilles; Cardiovascular diseases; Caribbean; Comportements alimentaires; Comportements de santé; Exercise; Feeding behavior; France; Health behavior; Pathologies cardiovasculaires; Sédentarité; Television viewing; Télévision