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Chronic Disease Risk Factors in Rural Australia: Results From the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Surveys

Tiina Laatikainen, MD, PhD*, Edward Janus, MD, PhD, Annamari Kilkkinen, MSc, PhD, Sami Heistaro, MD, PhD, Philip Tideman, MD, Andrew Baird, MD, Rosy Tirimacco, BSc, Malcolm Whiting, PhD, MAACB, Lucinola Franklin, BA, MPH, Anna Chapman, BSc, Anna Kao-Philpot, BN, and James Dunbar, MD, FRACGP

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tiina.laatikainen{at}ktl.fi.


  Abstract
The aim of this article was to assess the level and prevalence of major chronic disease risk factors among rural adults. Two crosssectional surveys were carried out in 2004 and 2005 in the southeast of South Australia and the southwest of Victoria. Altogether 891 randomly selected persons aged 25 to 74 years participated in the studies. Surveys included a selfadministered questionnaire, physical measurements, and a venous blood specimen for lipid analyses. Two thirds of participants had cholesterol levels ≥5.0 mmol/L. The prevalence of high diastolic blood pressure (≥90 mm Hg) was 22% for men and 10% for women in southeast of South Australia, and less than 10% for both sexes in southwest of Victoria. Two thirds of participants were overweight or obese (body mass index ≥25 kg/m2). About 15% of men and slightly less women were daily smokers. The abnormal risk factor levels underline the need for targeted prevention activities in the Greater Green Triangle region. Continuing surveillance of levels and patterns of risk factors is fundamentally important for planning and evaluating preventive activities.

First published on December 11, 2008, doi:10.1177/1010539508327351

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 2009;21:51.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2009

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