Doran Kelly, Resnick Barbara
1 University of Maryland Baltimore.
Workplace Health Saf. 2017 Oct;65(10):467-477. doi: 10.1177/2165079917693018. Epub 2017 Apr 19.
Little is known about long-term care workers' cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Thus, the authors used baseline objective and subjective data from 98 long-term care staff participating in a worksite health promotion study to provide a comprehensive CVD assessment. The median age of the sample was 32 years ( SD = 13.38). Nine (12.2%) participants smoked and 27 (37.0%) participants reported exposure to secondhand smoke. The average nightly hours of sleep was 6.5 ( SD = 1.18), with 24 (32%) participants reporting sleeping at least fairly bad. Sixty-eight participants (73.1%) were overweight or obese. The median aerobic activity was 0 ( SD = 18.56). Participants ate on average 27 ( SD = 17.34) servings of high fatty and/or salty foods per week. Although blood pressure and cholesterol levels were within normal limits, this population demonstrated poor behavioral CVD risk factors. Given this finding and the young age of the sample, these workers may be ideal candidates for health promotion efforts before health risk factors are present.
关于长期护理工作者的心血管疾病（CVD）风险，人们了解甚少。因此，作者利用参与工作场所健康促进研究的98名长期护理人员的基线客观和主观数据，进行了全面的心血管疾病评估。样本的中位年龄为32岁（标准差=13.38）。9名（12.2%）参与者吸烟，27名（37.0%）参与者报告接触过二手烟。平均每晚睡眠时间为6.5小时（标准差=1.18），24名（32%）参与者报告睡眠质量至少相当差。68名参与者（73.1%）超重或肥胖。有氧运动的中位数为0（标准差=18.56）。参与者每周平均食用27份（标准差=17.34）高脂肪和/或高盐食物。尽管血压和胆固醇水平在正常范围内，但该人群表现出不良的心血管疾病行为风险因素。鉴于这一发现以及样本的年轻年龄，这些工作人员可能是在健康风险因素出现之前开展健康促进工作的理想对象。
