Factors Affecting Children’s Cholesterol Levels with a View to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease—The Unique Benefits of Health Screening at the Elementary School — Oak Academic Publishing
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Factors Affecting Children’s Cholesterol Levels with a View to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease—The Unique Benefits of Health Screening at the Elementary School
Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Department of Welfare, Hiroshima Bunkyo Women’s University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
1 Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
2 Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
3 Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
4 Department of Welfare, Hiroshima Bunkyo Women’s University, Hiroshima, Japan
5 Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Background: The prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) can substantially contribute to reducing the mortality rate across countries. The level of interest in cholesterol among experts increases when the subjects are elderly and obese individuals. However, specialists do not recommend that children should receive the cholesterol test. The objective of this study was to investigate the distribution of cholesterol levels among the children of public school and their parents’ lifestyles that are associated with cholesterol levels, and to assess the need for and utility of cholesterol testing in school settings. Methods: The study investigated a group of 226 fourth-grade public school children aged between 9 and 10 years and guardians in Akitakatacity of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Multiple regression analyses were performed with the logarithmic value of cholesterol levels as a response variable, awareness about lifestyles and health of children as an explanatory variable, and child’s sex and body mass index (BMI) as moderating variables. Using questionnaires about lifestyles, the step-down procedure was applied in multiple regression analyses to narrow down relevant lifestyle variables. Results: The percentage of children with the high total cholesterol (TC) value was about 15 and with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol value was about 10. Children with low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol value were 5%. Treatment was not required according to the comprehensive assessment. Cholesterol levels were associated with the situation of the children and their guardians as follows, guardian need to consider the food, and child has the correct knowledge about food like how to eat snacks. Conclusions: Children had poor cholesterol levels. From childhood, along with the parents, there is a need to learn about appropriate level of cholesterol for CVD prevention.
KeywordsChildren’s Lifestyle-Related DiseaseCardiovascular DiseaseHealth Promotion for FamilySchool Health
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