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dc.contributor.advisorSkeie, Guri
dc.contributor.authorAsfaw, Sintayehu
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-08T08:13:06Z
dc.date.available2013-02-08T08:13:06Z
dc.date.issued2012-12-03
dc.description.abstractAbstract Objectives: Examine the degree to which BMI, heart rate, physical activity, alcohol intake, smoking and social participation may account for the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and systolic blood pressure (SBP), with main focus on measured SBP continuous variable. Design: Cross-sectional study with data from the Tromsø study 6. Setting: Tromsø Participant: The sample included 6095 women and 5419 men, aged 30 – 87 at screening. Results: High SBP was more prevalent for women and men with the lowest education compared with women and men with the highest education. After adjustment for heart rate the differences in SBP between the highest and the lowest educated groups reduced from 5.86 mmHg (95% confidence interval 4.32 to 7.40) to 5.61 mmHg (4.07 to 7.16) for women, and for men from 2.48 mmHg (0.92 to 4.04) to 1.96 mmHg (0.39 to 3.52) with further adjustment for BMI, physical activity, alcohol intake, smoking and social participation the variation in SBP decreased to 5.39 mmHg (3.78 to 6.99) for women and to 1.60 mmHg (– 0.04 to 3.25) for men. Conclusions: High SBP is more predominant among the lowest educated compared with the highest educated women and men. When all documented risk factors were adjusted simultaneously in the models, the differences in SBP turned into nonsignificance in men and 8% of the variation in SBP was explained in women according to levels of education.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/4819
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4536
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2012 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDHEL-3950en
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en
dc.titleContribution of risk factors to socioeconomic variation in blood pressure : the Tromsø studyen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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