Several anthropometric predictors of cardiovascular disease in central Slovakian adults: socioeconomic and educational differences.

Background: Slovak inhabitants are considered at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Objective: The aim of the study was to describe the social and educational differences in relation to anthropometric CVD risk factors among central Slovakian adults.

Participants: The study population consisted of 100 probands from the central Slovakian region of Orava (50 males and 50 females).

Anthropometric risk factors of atherosclerosis: differences between urban and rural east-Slovakian children and adolescents.

Objective: To describe selected risk factors of atherosclerosis in probands from East Slovakia, namely their regional (urban/rural), gender-related (male/female) and age (children/adolescents) differences.

Background: The development of cardiovascular disease at a young age is influenced by anthropometric risk factors (obesity and hypertension).

Participants: The study population consisted of 191 children and adolescents (97 males and 94 females) aged 7-18 from East Slovakia region (114 urban and 77 rural participants).

The prevalence of cigarette smoking and its relation to certain risk predictors of cardiovascular diseases in central-Slovakian Roma children and adolescents.

The objective of the study was to determine some Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors in relation to cigarette smoking in 174 Roma children and adolescents (88 males and 86 females) and 131 non-Roma probands (males and females) aged 7-18 in central Slovakia. In this biethnic study, 26.4% of the Roma children and adolescents (more than twice contrary to the control group) were smokers.

Cardiovascular risk predictors in central Slovakian Roma children and adolescents: regional differences.

The objective of the study was to determine some Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors in 174 Roma children and adolescents (88 males and 86 females) aged 7-18 in 3 Central Slovakian cities (44 from Zilina, 39 from Bansk, Bystrica and 91 from Rimavská Sobota). Venous blood samples were drawn in the morning, after a 12 hour overnight fast for biochemical analysis. Total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG) were determined enzymatically.

Some cardiovascular risk factors in Gypsy children and adolescents from Central Slovakia.

Background: Atherosclerosis could develope in the presence of CVD risk factors in early age.

Objective: To determine some risk factors of Cardiovascular Disease in Gypsy children and adolescents from Central Slovakia.

Participants: Study population (Gypsy/Caucasian ethnicities) consisted of 198 Gypsy children and adolescents (101 males and 97 females) aged 7-18 and 140 non-Gypsy children and adolescents (72 males and 68 females) from 3 Central Slovakia cities.