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8.10 Prevalence of Multiple Risk Factors
8.10.1 From Adult Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007
From the Attitudes to Health Survey (see page 794) completed during 2007 in Hull for
people aged 40-60 years, the reflector group work following the 2007 Health and
Lifestyle Survey (see page 795), and more detailed analysis completed for the reports
on obesity and exercise, alcohol and smoking completed following the latter survey, it is
clear that there is an association between risk factors in particular a relationship
between alcohol and smoking, and between lack of exercise, diet and obesity. For all of
these risk factors, gender, age and deprivation are confounders (see section 12.2 on
page 772) with a tendency for certain groups to have multiple risk factors. For example,
young men and women have a higher prevalence of both smoking and alcohol
consumption. For some diseases and medical conditions, there is evidence that the
presence of multiple risk factors increases the risk of developing the disease or dying
prematurely from that disease. Therefore, in assessing risk of future disease, it is useful
to examine the prevalence of multiple risk factors, and it is possible to examine this
using the information collected as part of the adult Health and Lifestyle Survey.
Table 160 and Table 161 present information on the prevalence of multiple risk factors
using the 2007 survey information 50 for men and women respectively. The risk factors
are defined in the following manner (see section 13.4 on page 805 for more
information):
Smoking: smoking daily or occasionally;
Alcohol: exceeding the weekly recommended alcohol units in the week prior to
the survey (21 units for men and 14 units for women) and/or binge drinking
usually at least once a week (exceeding twice the daily recommended alcohol
units, i.e. exceeding 8 units for men and 6 units for women on a single day);
Lack of exercise: not undertaking the recommended weekly guidelines for
exercise, i.e. not undertaking at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous
exercise on at least five days a week;
Obesity: defined as obese on the basis of having a body mass index or 30 or
more (based on adjusted height and adjusted weight – see section 13.4.1.1 on
page 805 for more information);
5-A-DAY: less than five portions of fruit and vegetables usually consumed each
day.
Table 160 shows the estimated number and percentage of men in the survey for the
combination of risk factors, and estimates the total number of men aged 18+ years for
Hull if the prevalence is multiplied up by the estimated resident population (103,760 men
as at October 2008). The estimated percentage is based on the number of men who
50 The estimates have not been updated for the more recent data as the numbers surveyed during the
2009 Prevalence Survey were fewer than half that of the 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey.
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