Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland

OBJECTIVE: For the past 10 years, refugees from Eritrea represented the majority of asylum seekers in Switzerland. However, data on their health status remains limited. In this cross-sectional survey followed by a 1-year cohort study, we screened newly arrived Eritrean refugees for cardiovascular ri...

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Autores principales: Chernet, Afona, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Sydow, Véronique, Paris, Daniel H., Neumayr, Andreas, Labhardt, Niklaus D.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31639048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4715-0
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author Chernet, Afona
Probst-Hensch, Nicole
Sydow, Véronique
Paris, Daniel H.
Neumayr, Andreas
Labhardt, Niklaus D.
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description OBJECTIVE: For the past 10 years, refugees from Eritrea represented the majority of asylum seekers in Switzerland. However, data on their health status remains limited. In this cross-sectional survey followed by a 1-year cohort study, we screened newly arrived Eritrean refugees for cardiovascular risk factors at arrival and 1-year post registration. RESULTS: Among 107 participants (88.8% male; median age 25, 9 (9%) had a body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m(2), one (1%) had elevated blood pressure, one (1%) had diabetes, 19% smoked and two (2%) had a low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ≥ 4.1 mmol/l. Among the 48 participants (5 females, 43 males) followed, there were no significant changes in cardiovascular risk profile 1 year post-arrival.
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spelling pubmed-68056562019-10-24 Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland Chernet, Afona Probst-Hensch, Nicole Sydow, Véronique Paris, Daniel H. Neumayr, Andreas Labhardt, Niklaus D. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: For the past 10 years, refugees from Eritrea represented the majority of asylum seekers in Switzerland. However, data on their health status remains limited. In this cross-sectional survey followed by a 1-year cohort study, we screened newly arrived Eritrean refugees for cardiovascular risk factors at arrival and 1-year post registration. RESULTS: Among 107 participants (88.8% male; median age 25, 9 (9%) had a body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m(2), one (1%) had elevated blood pressure, one (1%) had diabetes, 19% smoked and two (2%) had a low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ≥ 4.1 mmol/l. Among the 48 participants (5 females, 43 males) followed, there were no significant changes in cardiovascular risk profile 1 year post-arrival. BioMed Central 2019-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6805656/ /pubmed/31639048 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4715-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Sydow, Véronique
Paris, Daniel H.
Neumayr, Andreas
Labhardt, Niklaus D.
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title Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland
title_full Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland
title_fullStr Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland
title_full_unstemmed Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland
title_short Cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland
title_sort cardiovascular diseases risk factors among recently arrived eritrean refugees in switzerland
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31639048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4715-0
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