- Researchers say poor lifestyle choices among younger people in the United States are leading to increased risks of cardiometabolic disease.
- Younger Black and Hispanic people reportedly have higher rates of obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.
- People with higher education, higher income, higher food security level, and health insurance coverage had lower rates of lifestyle risk factors and cardiometabolic disease rates.
A new study seems to confirm that the lifestyle choices younger adults in the United States make don’t necessarily equate to good health.
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In it, researchers say many younger adults make poor lifestyle decisions that can lead to cardiometabolic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, with rates varying depending on race and ethnicity.
Researchers looked at 10,405 individuals between the ages of 18 and 44 whose information was available through the
Five different lifestyle risk factors were evaluated. They were:
- Current smoking
- Excessive drinking
- Poor diet quality
- Inadequate physical activity
- Inappropriate sleep duration
The prevalence of these lifestyle risk factors were calculated, ranging from about 16% for excessive drinking to about 49% for poor diet quality.
Increased prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases ranged from about 4% for diabetes to about 37% for high cholesterol. In addition, the prevalence of having two or more lifestyle risk factors was about 45% and having two or more cardiometabolic diseases was 22%.
Researchers reported that white people had higher rates of smoking and excessive drinking than Hispanic and Asian Americans. White people also had a lower prevalence of poor diet quality, inadequate physical…
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