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Walking as an Opportunity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Source :
- Preventing Chronic Disease
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Introduction Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and increasing physical activity can help prevent and manage disease. Walking is an easy way for most adults to be more active and may help people at risk for CVD avoid inactivity, increase their physical activity levels, and improve their cardiovascular health. To guide efforts that promote walking for CVD prevention and management, we estimated the prevalence of walking among US adults by CVD risk status. Methods Nationally representative data on walking from participants (N = 29,742) in the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement were analyzed. We estimated prevalence of walking (ie, any, transportation, and leisure) overall and by CVD status. We defined CVD status as either not having CVD and not at risk for CVD; being at risk for CVD (overweight or having obesity plus 1 or more additional risk factors); or having CVD. We defined additional risk factors as diabetes, high cholesterol, or hypertension. Odds ratios were estimated by using logistic regression models adjusted for respondent characteristics. Results Prevalence of any walking decreased with increasing CVD risk (no CVD/not at risk, 66.6%; at risk: overweight or has obesity with 1 risk factor, 63.0%; with 2 risk factors, 59.5%; with 3 risk factors, 53.6%; has CVD, 50.2%). After adjusting for respondent characteristics, the odds of any walking and leisure walking decreased with increasing CVD risk. However, CVD risk was not associated with walking for transportation. Conclusions Promoting walking may be a way to help adults avoid inactivity and encourage an active lifestyle for CVD prevention and management.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Promotion
Walking
Overweight
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
Epidemiology
medicine
Prevalence
National Health Interview Survey
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
cardiovascular diseases
0101 mathematics
Risk factor
Cause of death
Aged
Original Research
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Health Policy
010102 general mathematics
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Disease Management
Odds ratio
Middle Aged
United States
Exercise Therapy
Cardiovascular Diseases
Female
medicine.symptom
Risk assessment
business
Body mass index
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15451151
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Preventing chronic disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b5437367d2d43b888e281dbc7b575443