Prevalence and influencing factors of chronic diseases among residents in Zhonghe community of Jining city
Objective To study prevalence and the factors of chronic diseases in Zhonghe community of Jining City,so as to provide scientific basis for the prevention and control of chronic diseases.Methods The descriptive epidemiology method was conducted.Two-stage sampling was used.A certain number of residential committees were randomly selected from Zhonghe community of Jining city,and then families were sampled from the selected residential committees according to certain spacing extraction.Face to face questionnaire survey was done on the the actual residents of the sampled family.The influencing factors of chronic diseases were explored by multivariate unconditional Logistic regression.Results The pvevalence rate of chronic diseases was 35.8%(901/2517)of the participants,and the male was 34.3%(414/1207),the female was 37.1%(482/1300),the difference was not statistically significant(χ2=2.102,P=0.147).The prevalence of chronic diseases increases with age(χ2trend=843.777,P<0.001).The prevalence of chronic diseases ranks were hypertension(27.73%),diabetes(11.20%),heart disease(6.63%),cerebrovascular disease(3.30%),dyslipidemia(3.10%),cancer(0.28%),kidney disease(0.24%),thyroid disease(0.16%).Factors included in the multivariate analysis mode were age≥40 years old,physical exercise,over-weight or obesity,smoking and so on.Conclusion The prevalence of chronic diseases was high in Zhonghe community of Jining City.The major chronic diseases were hypertention,diabetes,heart disease,cerebrovascular disease.The influ-ence factors of chronic diseases were old age,overweight or obesity,smoke,etc.