Thangiah, Nithiah and Su, Tin Tin and Chinna, Karuthan and Jalaludin, Muhammad Yazid and Mohamed, Mohd Nahar Azmi and Majid, Hazreen Abdul (2021) Longitudinal assessment between lifestyle-related risk factors and a composite cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk index among adolescents in Malaysia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). ISSN 2045-2322, DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98127-0.
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The study aims to create a composite risk index of CVD among adolescents and examine the influence of demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle-related risk factors on the composite risk index of biological CVD risk factors among adolescents in Malaysia. A Malaysian adolescent cohort of 1320 adolescents were assessed at 13, 15 and 17 years. Seven biological CVD risk factors with moderate correlation were identified, standardized and averaged to form a composite CVD risk index. Generalised estimating equation using longitudinal linear regression was used to examine the effects of changes in adolescent lifestyle-related risk factors on the composite CVD risk index over time. From the ages 13 to 17 years, physical fitness (beta = - 0.001, 90% CI = - 0.003, 0.00002) and BMI (beta = 0.051, 95% CI = 0.042, 0.060) were significant predictors of attaining high scores of CVD risk. Female (beta = 0.118, 95% CI = 0.040, 0.197), Chinese (beta = 0.122, 95% CI = 0.006, 0.239), Indians (beta = - 0.114, 95% CI = - 0.216, - 0.012) and adolescents from rural schools (beta = 0.066, 95% CI = - 0.005, 0.136) were also found to be considerably significant. A more robust and gender-specific intervention programme focusing on healthy lifestyle (including achieving ideal BMI and improving physical fitness) need to be implemented among school-going adolescents.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Malaya [UMRP022A-14HTM] [RMF002-2020] [PG156-2015B] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Physical-activity; Young-adults; Children; Health |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > Child health. Child health services |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Paediatrics Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2022 01:57 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2022 01:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/28378 |
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