2024-03-28T22:03:57Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2413232021-05-21T01:30:07Zcom_10261_70com_10261_2col_10261_323
Henriksson, Pontus
Henriksson, Hanna
Labayen, Idoia
Huybrechts, Inge
Gracia-Marco, Luis
Ortega, F. B.
España-Romero, V.
Manios, Yannis
González Gross, Marcela
Marcos, Ascensión
Moreno, Luis A.
Gutiérrez, Á.
Ruiz, Jonatan R.
2021-05-20T12:00:26Z
2021-05-20T12:00:26Z
2018
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 28(2): 187-194 (2018)
1590-3729
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/241323
10.1016/j.numecd.2017.10.018
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007687
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006393
[Background and aims]: The ideal cardiovascular health (iCVH) construct consists of 4 health behaviors (smoking status, body mass index, physical activity and diet) and 3 health factors (total cholesterol, blood pressure and fasting glucose). A greater number of iCVH components in adolescence are related to better cardiovascular health, but little is known about the correlates of iCVH in adolescents. Thus, the aim of the study was to examine correlates of iCVH in European adolescents.
[Methods and results]: The study comprised 637 European adolescents with complete iCVH data. Participants were part of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) study, a cross-sectional, multicenter study conducted in 9 different European countries. Correlates investigated were sex and age, family affluence scale, maternal education, geographic location, sleep time, television viewing, duration of pregnancy, birth weight and breastfeeding. Younger adolescents, those whose mothers had medium/high education or those who watched television less than 2 h per day had a greater number of iCVH components compared to those who were older, had a mother with low education or watched television 2 h or more daily (P ≤ 0.01).
[Conclusion]: Since in our study older adolescents had worse iCVH than younger adolescents, early promotion of cardiovascular health may be important. Future studies may also investigate the usefulness of limiting television viewing to promote iCVH. Finally, since adolescents of mothers with low education had poorer iCVH, it may be of special interest to tailor public health promotion to adolescents from families with low socioeconomic status.
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Correlates of ideal cardiovascular health in European adolescents: The HELENA study
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