title: [Relevance analysis of health behaviors and influencing factors for detection rate of carotid atherosclerotic plaque].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the relevance of health behaviors and influencing factors for detection rate of carotid plaques to prevent the formation of carotid plaque.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 2 628 healthy subjects aged over 40 years were selected randomly from Department of Cardiology at our hospital from 2009-2010. A questionnaire survey was conducted on age, education level, marriage, occupation, income, diet, living habits and lifestyle factors. Logistic regression analysis was made for the influencing factors of internal carotid artery plaque.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Single factor analysis showed that gender, age, smoking rate, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, carotid artery intima-media thickness (intima-media thickness, IMT), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) had significant effects on plaque formation. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that gender, age, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C and number of health behaviors were the major influencing factors for the formation of carotid plaque. Compared with the <2 ideal cardiovascular health factors and actuators, the risk levels of 3, 4, 5, >5 ideal cardiovascular health behaviors/factors and occurrence of carotid plaques were 0.65, 0.45, 0.39 and 0.29 respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The formation of carotid plaque is affected by many factors. The number of ideal cardiovascular health behaviors is negatively correlated with plaque formation and it can prevent the occurrence of carotid plaque.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Cardiovascular Research Institute, Nanjing 221009, China. Email: 274248120@qq.com.
authors.forename: Shuzhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Cardiovascular Research Institute, Nanjing 221009, China.
authors.forename: Ru
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Cardiovascular Research Institute, Nanjing 221009, China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D059168:Carotid Intima-Media Thickness; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D058226:Plaque, Atherosclerotic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking
chemical_list: D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL