Survey Of Chronic Disease And The Relevant Behavioral Risk Factors Of Local Residents In Taicang

ObjectiveThe survey aims to study local residents in Ttaicang City, chronic diseases and their related knowledge and analysis of behavioral risk factors, identify the characteristics of local residents and theinfluencial factors of chronic diseases affecting the knowledge and behavioral risk factors, socioeconomic factors, find targeted groups to interfere with proper health promotion approaches, finally propose solutions and suggestions to enhance the level of health knowledge in local residents and promote the healthy behavior, lower chronic disease, improve control rates, therefore to improve the overall health.Method29757residents over the age of18were surveyed using random cluster stratified sampling in Taicang City. EPIDATA3.02was used to enter the data and SPSS18.0was used to analyze the data.Result1. The current prevalence of major chronic disease in Taicang City:the prevalence rate of hypertension was15.53%, the prevalence rate of stones (including all parts of the stones) was3.99%, the prevalence rate of diabetes was2.86%, the prevalence rate of the stomach and duodenum disease was2.83%, the prevalence rate of dyslipidemia was1.84%, the prevalence rate of osteoporosis and fracture was1.82%, the prevalence rate of heart disease was1.86%, the prevalence rate of cataract was1.44%, the prevalence rate of cervical spondylosis was1.41%, the prevalence rate of cerebrovascular accident was1.36%, the prevalence rate of tumor was0.72%, and the prevalence rate of gout was0.68%. The prevalence of all chronic diseases showed an increasing tendency after the35-year-old.2. Smoking, drinking, age, sex, educational level, BMI, and waistline are the major influence factors of chronic diseases. 3. Age, BMI and waistline are the major influence factors of hypertension, and age, educational level, BMI, and waistline are the major influence factors of diabetes by multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis.4. Prevalence of risk factors:the smoking rate was22.19%, the drinking rate was23.74%, the rate of overweight (24<BMI<28) was30.12%, and the rate of obesity (BMI≥28) was6.17%. The percentage of people who do not regularly participate in physical exercise was83.76%. The population who took part in daily light physical activity accounted for54.87%. People who had poor sleep accounted for4.43%. People who had salty taste accounted for7.73%.5. The awareness of healthy knowledge:95.45%of the respondents thought that smoking is harmful to health, and94.34%of the respondents believed that passive smoking is harmful to health,93.38%of the respondents believed that smoking during pregnancy will adversely affect baby’s health, more than75%of the respondents believed that the liversclerosis patients should not drink, more than50%of them thought that the patients with hypertension, pregnant women and children should not drink, and more than35%of the respondents believed that the patients with coronary heart disease should not drink. How to control blood pressure in patients with hypertension:88.83%of them knew medication by your doctor,43.93%of them knew reducing salt intake,42.83%of them knew doing regular exercise, and36.30%of them knew weight control.76.52%of the respondents believed that Polyphagia, polydipsia, polyuria and weight loss are the common symptoms associated with diabetes.Conclude1. Due to the differences of the technical means and diagnostic methods, the prevalence rates in hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia were lower than the national level.2. The smoking rate, male smoking rate and female smoking rate were lower, compared with the national level.3. The rates of overweight, obesity and waistline exceeding were at a higher level. Additionally, most people do not regularly participate in physical exercises. These unhealthy lifestyles will greatly increase the risk of chronic diseases.Therefore, policy support environment should be created, community standardized management of chronic diseases should be strengthened, and community comprehensive interventions to reduce the risk factors (smoking, alcohol drinking, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity)must be implemented, to change people’s unhealthy lifestyle, to improve the patients’adherence to treatment, the care rate, and the control rate, to reduce and control chronic complications, morbidity and mortality, and to improve the overall health of the population.