scholarly journals Community Self-Efficacy of Coronary Heart Disease Based on Characteristic Risk Factors

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Eka Afrima Sari ◽  
Seizi Prista Sari ◽  
Sri Hartati Pratiwi

Coronary heart disease is one of the main causes of mortality rate in the world.  This disease is affected by several risk factors. People who have high or moderate risk factors for coronary heart disease should have good preventive behavior, but this also requires a good level of self-efficacy as well, so that the expected behavior can be performed. This study aimed to determine the level of community self-efficacy of coronary heart disease based on characteristic risk factors. This research used a descriptive quantitative approach. Participant consisted of 70 people in Desa Limusgede, West Java, Indonesia acquired through a non-probability technique of purposive sampling. Self-efficacy was measured using a self-efficacy questionnaire (validity value in the range of 0.484 to 0.773 and reliability value 0.862) while risk factor data were determined by age, body mass index, blood pressure, smoking behavior, diabetes mellitus, and physical activity which were referenced by Jakarta Cardiovascular Score. Data were analyzed using median and frequency distribution. The results showed that median (minimum-maximum score) of self-efficacy is 26.00 (11-41), most of the respondent (62.86%) had high self-efficacy of coronary heart disease and more than a half respondent (47.14%) had moderate and high-risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Further, almost half the respondent who had high self-efficacy also had moderate and high-risk factors for cardiovascular disease. So, the health professional must concern in activities to decrease the level of cardiovascular risk factors, such as health education, health promotion, and disease prevention.

Author(s):  
Ting Liu ◽  
Aileen Wai Kiu Chan ◽  
Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae ◽  
Kai-Chow Choi ◽  
Sek-Ying Chair

Tai Chi is an effective exercise option for individuals with coronary heart disease or its associated risk factors. An accurate and systematic assessment of a Mandarin-speaking adults’ self-efficacy in maintaining Tai Chi exercise is lacking. Mandarin Chinese has the most speakers worldwide. This study aimed to translate the Tai Chi Exercise Self-Efficacy scale and examine its psychometric properties. The 14-item Tai Chi Exercise Self-Efficacy scale was translated from English into Mandarin Chinese using a forward-translation, back-translation, committee approach, and pre-test procedure. Participants with coronary heart disease or risk factors (n = 140) enrolled in a cross-sectional study for scale validation. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit of the two-factor structure (Tai Chi exercise self-efficacy barriers and performance) to this sample. The translated scale demonstrated high internal consistency, with a Cronbach’s α value of 0.97, and good test-retest reliability, with an intra-class correlation coefficient of 0.86 (p < 0.01). Participants with prior Tai Chi experience reported significantly higher scores than those without (p < 0.001), supporting known-group validity. A significant correlation was observed between the translated scale and total exercise per week (r = 0.37, p < 0.01), providing evidence of concurrent validity. The Mandarin Chinese version of the Tai Chi Exercise Self-Efficacy scale is a valid and reliable scale for Chinese adults with coronary heart disease or risk factors.


1985 ◽  
Vol 110 (4_Suppl) ◽  
pp. S21-S26 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Jarrett ◽  
M. J. Shipley

Summary. In 168 male diabetics aged 40-64 years participating in the Whitehall Study, ten-year age adjusted mortality rates were significantly higher than in non-diabetics for all causes, coronary heart disease, all cardiovascular disease and, in addition, causes other than cardiovascular. Mortality rates were not significantly related to known duration of the diabetes. The predictive effects of several major mortality risk factors were similar in diabetics and non-diabetics. Excess mortality rates in the diabetics could not be attributed to differences in levels of blood pressure or any other of the major risk factors measured. Key words: diabetics; mortality rates; risk factors; coronary heart disease. There are many studies documenting higher mortality rates - particularly from cardiovascular disease -in diabetics compared with age and sex matched diabetics from the same population (see Jarrett et al. (1982) for review). However, there is sparse information relating potential risk factors to subsequent mortality within a diabetic population, information which might help to explain the increased mortality risk and also suggest preventive therapeutic approaches. In the Whitehall Study, a number of established diabetics participated in the screening programme and data on mortality rates up to ten years after screening are available. We present here a comparison of diabetics and non-diabetics in terms of relative mortality rates and the influence of conventional risk factors as well as an analysis of the relationship between duration of diabetes and mortality risk.


1986 ◽  
Vol 57 (13) ◽  
pp. 1075-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Crow ◽  
Penti M. Rautaharju ◽  
Ronald J. Prineas ◽  
John E. Connett ◽  
Curt Furberg ◽  
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Circulation ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Lu ◽  
Kaveh Hajifathalian ◽  
Majid Ezzati ◽  
Eric Rimm ◽  
Goodarz Danaei

Introduction: Health disparities remain pervasive in US and eliminating such disparities is one of the overarching goals of the Healthy People 2020 agenda. Previous studies have assessed the disparities in risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality by race/ethnicity, but most of them only focused on the average CHD risk without taking into account the full risk distribution which would enable analysis of specific high-risk sub-groups. In this study, we estimated the 10-year risk distribution of CHD mortality based on 5 leading modifiable risk factors in US (i.e. smoking, adiposity, high blood pressure, serum cholesterol and blood glucose). We quantified the racial disparities in absolute CHD risk while accounting for full risk distribution. Methods: We included 3866 individuals aged 45 to 74 years, who were black or white, non-pregnant, free of CHD and had measurements of all 5 risk factors from 6 consecutive 2-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2010. We used mortality data from National Center for Health Statistics to estimate the cause-age-sex-race specific mortality in 2010. We also obtained hazard ratios of the selected 5 risk factors on CHD mortality from large meta-analyses of epidemiological studies. We predicted the 10-year risk of CHD death for each individual by simulating their survival process from 2010 to 2020 incorporating competing risks by death from other correlated causes. To assess health disparities, we compared the 5 th , 25 th , 50 th , 75 th and 95 th percentile of the predicted risks between black and white by age and sex. Results: More than half of the black and white population aged 45 to 74 years had a low 10-year risk of CHD death (< 2%). The age-sex-race specific distributions of 10-year CHD risk were right-skewed with a large proportion of population on the low risk tail. Comparing to white, black had similar shape of CHD risk distributions, but higher risk levels at all percentiles across age and sex groups. In 55-64 ages where CHD was the major cause of death, the median of CHD risk for black males was 2.9% (interquartile range (IQR) 1.7% - 4.4%), which was 0.7% larger than that for white males (2.2%, IQR 1.4% - 3.3%). This risk difference was similar in females: the median CHD risk for black females was 1.6% (IQR 0.9% - 2.4%) and 0.9% for white females (IQR 0.5% - 1.5%). The disparities became larger on the high risk tail (95 th percentile of predicted risk), where black had 2.7% higher risk for male and 2.3% for female in 55-64 ages. In older age groups (65-74 ages), such difference increased to 3.5% for both male and female. Conclusions: This analysis showed a skewed 10-year CHD risk distribution in US. The racial disparities are larger in the high risk sub-groups compared to those in the center of the risk distribution, indicating that the high risk subgroups should be the target population of intervention that aims to reduce health disparities in US.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Okunrintemi ◽  
Martin Tibuakuu ◽  
Salim S. Virani ◽  
Laurence S. Sperling ◽  
Annabelle Santos Volgman ◽  
...  

Background Sex differences in the trends for control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors have been described, but temporal trends in the age at which CVD and its risk factors are diagnosed and sex‐specific differences in these trends are unknown. Methods and Results We used the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2008 to 2017, a nationally representative sample of the US population. Individuals ≥18 years, with a diagnosis of hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, or stroke, and who reported the age when these conditions were diagnosed, were included. We included 100 709 participants (50.2% women), representing 91.9 million US adults with above conditions. For coronary heart disease and hypercholesterolemia, mean age at diagnosis was 1.06 and 0.92 years older for women, compared with men, respectively (both P <0.001). For stroke, mean age at diagnosis for women was 1.20 years younger than men ( P <0.001). The mean age at diagnosis of CVD risk factors became younger over time, with steeper declines among women (annual decrease, hypercholesterolemia [women, 0.31 years; men 0.24 years] and hypertension [women, 0.23 years; men, 0.20 years]; P <0.001). Coronary heart disease was not statistically significant. For stroke, while age at diagnosis decreased by 0.19 years annually for women ( P =0.03), it increased by 0.22 years for men ( P =0.02). Conclusions The trend in decreasing age at diagnosis for CVD and its risk factors in the United States appears to be more pronounced among women. While earlier identification of CVD risk factors may provide opportunity to initiate preventive treatment, younger age at diagnosis of CVD highlights the need for the prevention of CVD earlier in life, and sex‐specific interventions may be needed.


Author(s):  
Hannelore K. Neuhauser ◽  
Ute Ellert ◽  
Bärbel-Maria Kurth

Background Overestimation of risk by Framingham risk functions not only in southern but also in northern European populations including Germany, has led to the development of the SCORE risk estimation model. Design Data of the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 1998 was used to determine whether SCORE leads to lower estimates of the 10-year absolute risk of fatal cardiovascular disease and fatal coronary heart disease than a Framingham model. Predicted numbers of events were compared with approximations based on national mortality statistics. Methods Inclusion criteria followed the recommendations for the use of SCORE: age 30 to 69 years, no previous history of cardiovascular disease and no markedly raised levels of single risk factors (leaving 1811 men and 1955 women for analysis). Results The SCORE model for high-risk regions (SCORE-HIGH, which is recommended for Germany pending calibration with national data) predicted the highest number of events, followed by the estimations with mortality statistics, the Framingham model and SCORE-LOW (87 fatal cardiovascular disease events versus 77, 62 and 47; fatal coronary heart disease events 62 versus 46, 46 and 30). Agreement on high-risk status, defined as the 10-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease of 5% or higher now or if extrapolated to age 60, was moderate for both men and women (≤ 0.52 and 0.42 for Framingham and SCORE-HIGH). Conclusions Our results suggest that SCORE-HIGH may overestimate absolute risk of fatal coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease in Germany and may need calibration. Furthermore, the limitations of current risk prediction tools emphasize the ongoing need for comprehensive, high-quality and timely European cohort data.


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