Socioeconomic Impact on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Wallonia, Belgium: A Population-Based Study

Table 4

Univariate association between socioeconomic factors and CRFs in the NESCaV sample stratified by age, gender, and district ().

	Hypertension		Dyslipidemia		Global obesity		Abdominal obesity		Diabetes		Current smoking		Physical inactivity
	OR	value	OR	value	OR	value	OR	value	OR	value	OR	value	OR	value
	(95% CI)		(95% CI)		(95% CI)		(95% CI)		(95% CI)		(95% CI)		(95% CI)
Educational level		0.018		0.17		0.0003		<0.0001		0.33		0.0003		<0.0001
Primary	1.88		1.30		3.16		5.05		1.87		2.85		2.55
	(1.19–2.96)		(0.81–2.07)		(1.81–5.51)		(2.88–8.88)		(0.85–4.11)		(1.74–4.67)		(1.72–3.79)
Secondary	1.86		1.11		2.35		3.66		1.31		2.11		1.77
	(1.17–2.96)		(0.72–1.70)		(1.33–4.13)		(2.06–6.51)		(0.56–3.07)		(1.30–3.42)		(1.21–2.57)
Bachelor	1.35		0.83		1.66		2.34		1.14		1.64		1.12
	(0.83–2.17)		(0.54–1.27)		(0.92–2.99)		(1.29–4.23)		(0.46–2.77)		(1.00–2.70)		(0.77–1.63)
University	—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Subjective economic level		0.004		0.36		0.0004		<0.0001		0.66		0.0001		<0.0001
In need	1.65		1.18		1.91		2.07		1.14		1.89		2.40
	(1.18–2.32)		(0.83–1.66)		(1.34–2.74)		(1.46–2.94)		(0.63–2.06)		(1.37–2.61)		(1.75–3.31)
Well off	—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Objective economic level		0.83		0.091		0.0007		0.0005		0.14		0.015		0.0007
Low	1.05		1.45		2.00		2.02		1.61		1.60		1.86
	(0.70–1.57)		(0.94–2.23)		(1.34–2.98)		(1.36–2.99)		(0.85–3.05)		(1.09–2.33)		(1.30–2.66)
High	—		—		—		—		—		—		—

Low = below risk of poverty threshold; high = above risk of poverty threshold.