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Risk factors for chronic non communicable diseases in Mombasa, Kenya: Epidemiological study using WHO stepwise approach

Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence and distribution patterns of the major common risk factors \nfor non communicable diseases among the people living in Mombasa, Kenya. \nMETHODS: Using the WHO STEPwise approach, risk factors for non communicable diseases were \nanalyzed for 305 people aged between 13 to 67 years. The study sample was arrived at through \nconvenient stratification of the population according to age and setting followed by random \nselection of the participants. RESULTS: The most common individual risk factors registered were physical inactivity, \nhypertension and overweight/obesity accounting for 42%, 24% and 11% of the sample \nrespectively. Participants who possessed a single risk factor profile were 42% and those who had \nmultiple risk factors were approximately 17%. Hypertension and physical inactivity were the \nmost common multiple risk factor pattern possessed by 7.5% of the participants who had at least \none of the investigated risk factors for CNCDs. Socio-demographic characteristics including male \ngender, increasing age, being a student and low socio-economic status were found to be positive \npredictors of CNCDs \nCONCLUSION: The burden of CNCDs risk factors is unequally distributed among Mombasa \nresidents. The poorest quintile posses the worst risk factor profile compared to their privileged \ncounterparts. The implementation of WHO STEPwise approach was feasible since it revealed a \ncomprehensive picture of the at-risk groups thus forming a vital baseline framework for target specific \nand cost-effective CNCDs control and prevention interventions.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2125362994
FWCI: 0.644
Cites: 9
Cited by: 12
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