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The High-risk and Population Strategy for Occupational Health Promotion (HIPOP-OHP) study: study design and cardiovascular risk factors at the baseline survey
- Source :
- Journal of Human Hypertension. 18:475-485
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2004.
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Abstract
- In order to establish the methodology of a population strategy for improving cardiovascular risk factors, we have planned the High-risk and Population Strategy for Occupational Health Promotion Study (HIPOP-OHP study). This study is a nonrandomized control trial in approximately 6500 participants in six intervention and six control companies. Our population strategy is based on three factors, nutrition, physical activity, and smoking. For each factor, a researcher's working team was organized and has been supporting the intervention. A standardized method to obtain comparable data has also been established. In the baseline survey, urinary sodium excretion in male subjects was higher, and urinary potassium excretion was lower in both genders in the intervention group compared to the control group. The prevalence of hypertension for both genders was also higher in the intervention group. Male subjects in the intervention group had higher serum total cholesterol than controls, while high-density lipoprotein cholesterol was lower in both genders in the intervention group compared to the control group. These differences were reflected by our finding that the predicted relative risk of coronary heart disease for male subjects was significantly higher in the intervention group (relative risk, RR: 1.17; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI.: 1.09, 1.25) and significantly lower in the control group (RR: 0.93; 95% CI.: 0.89, 0.98) compared to a model Japanese population. Similar results were observed in the female subjects. Taken together, these findings indicate that it is possible to compare trends of predicted relative risk for coronary heart disease between two groups.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Risk
medicine.medical_specialty
Alcohol Drinking
Population
Health Promotion
Occupational safety and health
Japan
Patient Education as Topic
Internal medicine
Confidence Intervals
Prevalence
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Risk factor
education
Exercise
Occupational Health
Sex Characteristics
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Cholesterol, HDL
Smoking
Sodium
Middle Aged
Confidence interval
Clinical trial
Cholesterol
Blood pressure
Cardiovascular Diseases
Relative risk
Hypertension
Potassium
Physical therapy
Female
business
Sex characteristics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14765527 and 09509240
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Human Hypertension
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....036e39ee7e3c522d5832bf20882d7767