Relation of smoking, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and elderly population with mortality from noncommunicable diseases: a worldwide database ecological study
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Risk factors; Chronic disease; Sedentary lifestyle; Tobacco use disorder; Alcoholism.Abstract
Introduction: Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) are conditions that result from a multifactorial combination of the individual. They are mainly represented by chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes. They are related to some risk factors that increase the incidence of morbidity and mortality, such as smoking, consumption of alcoholic beverages, physical inactivity and the natural aging process. Objectives: to analyze the association between smoking, physical inactivity, aging and alcoholism with NCDs mortality worldwide. Materials and Methods: An ecological observational study was carried out, with the population studied being composed by world regions and countries, with their respective data on the prevalence of mortality from NCDs, prevalence of elderly people aged 65 years and over, smokers, physically inactive and consumption of alcoholic beverages estimated in liters of alcohol per capita. Results: 253 regions and countries available in the world bank were evaluated. The mean prevalence (±SD) of mortality from NCDs was 70.2 (±20.2)%. Evaluating the elderly population, it was noticed that for every 1% increase in its prevalence, there is an increase of 2.3% in NCDs mortality (p<0.001). Using the same parameter for smoking, the increment was 1.2% (p<0.001). For alcohol consumption, there was an increase of 1.8% (p<0.001). Physical inactivity presented the lowest correlation index, increasing 0.6% in the NCDs mortality numbers for each 1% of additional prevalence (p<0.001). Conclusion: Thus, all risk factors had an influence when related to the outcome, with advanced age being denoted as the greatest risk factor associated with mortality from NCDs.
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