Situação socioeconômica, mobilidade social e fatores de risco cardiovascular em uma coorte brasileira

Abstract

Cardiovascular risk factors contribute to increased morbidity and mortality and should be prevented. Socioeconomic status and social mobility that occurred in our country in recent decades have contributed to a new reality from the point of view of health care. There have been a possibility of improve in risk factors due to epidemiological transition as occurred in developed countries where there were improvements in them. Thus it aimed to assess how the behavior of these risk factors in a cohort started at birth in 1978/79 and reviewed in 2002/04 in the state Ribeirão Preto to 23/24 years of age for a total of 2069 individuals. Socio-demographic characteristics were used, and cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, lipid profile, blood pressure, physical activity, alcohol use and smoking. There was the income classification relating the minimum wage at birth and in early adulthood. Logistic regression models were used. The results were improvement in obesity, HDLCholesterol, physical activity, insulin resistance in high-income women and physical activity and HDL-Cholesterol in high-income men; there was worse of alcohol consumption in both groups. We concluded that high-income adults especially women presented cardiovascular risk factors profiles similar to those in high-income countries.