Ideal cardiovascular health and cardiometabolic factors: a study with workers at a public university

• Grant number: 21/02880-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2022
• End date: August 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Roberta Cunha Matheus Rodrigues
• Grantee: Roberta Cunha Matheus Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Enfermagem. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Carla Renata Silva Andrechuk ; Maria Filomena Ceolim ; Marilia Estevam Cornélio ; Thaís Moreira São João

Abstract

A cross-sectional study aiming at assessing the ideal cardiovascular health through biological and behavioral factors and verifying its relationship with sociodemographic, clinical variables and sleep characteristics among workers from a public university in the state of São Paulo. Our sample will include 553 workers selected randomly according to professional and sex strata. We will collect sociodemographic and clinical data, both as part of the Life's Simple Seven (LS7) metric (i.e., smoking, BMI, blood pressure, fasting glycemia, total cholesterol, diet, and physical activity) and additional metrics - insulin, glycated hemoglobin, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, waist, hip, and neck circumference, additional data on the quality of the diet and sleep, including actigraphy and inflammatory biomarkers. We will collect data according to the following steps: step 1 (online): workers will be contacted randomly via email. If they accept participating, they will be redirected to a series of online questionnaires; step 2 (in person): we will collect blood samples and anthropometric measurements; step 3 (via telephone): participants will be called to respond to 24-hour dietary recalls. We will perform statistical analyses to describe and compare the data and to find associations and relationships between LS7, health, and sociodemographic variables. Our results will provide a mapping of the workers' ideal cardiovascular health, showing the factors that present the worst performance and that will require health interventions, as well as subsidize the development/improvement of public policies on cardiometabolic disease prevention and reduction of cardiovascular mortality. (AU)