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344: Prevention, physical exercise
Journal of Clinical Lipidology, Vol 2, No 5S, October 2008
of SLE patients 55 years and older, APS was significant predictor of plaque presence since 91.79% of patient with carotid artery changes had APS (p=0.083). Conclusions: Presence of APS in SLE group of patients is a predictor of carotid arteries IMT changes. This is especially prominent in older patients.
part to the excellent networking that already exists in this ethnic group. Funding: State of Tyrol
345 Funding: none
344 PREVENTION, PHYSICAL EXERCISE M. Hochleitner1, A. Bader2. 1Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Women's Health Centre of the Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Objective: The Women's Health Center focuses on cardiac prevention. Numerous information events and diagnosis campaigns are offered, where heart risk profiles are drawn up. In self-assessment by our patients, on average 90% reply that they get ample physical exercise, even though we on average don't believe it. Our out-patient clinic for Turkish women shows that physical exercise entails special problems. This fact is known in this group and from the literature, and the patients also admit it. Methods: At two prevention campaigns in 2000 and 2001 we surveyed 1,536women. Results: Physical exercise at least three times a week for thirty minutes received a positive reply from only ¼ (403;26.2%) of the women, while ¾(1,126;73.3%) denied it and 7(0.5%) gave no answer. Conclusions: Since compliance is particularly questionable in this area, we decided to make an initiative through the Turkish women's out-patient clinic. First was a Walk-campaign. Once a week a one-hour accompanied walk through town was made, starting from the hospital. The women were examined before and after the program for heart risk factors, and incentives were offered for them get more exercise in the hope that networks for group walking would develop. Thereafter, an Exercise Group was started with healthy Turkish women who promised to exercise at the hospital for one hour once a week and to also do exercises at home. Compliance is very good with regard to attendance, which is certainly due in
HOW TO DO PREVENTION IN IMMIGRANT WOMEN – IS LANGUAGE A REAL BARRIER? A. Bader1, M. Hochleitner2. 1Women's Health Centre of the Innsbruck University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Objective: At the hospital we saw that Turkish women lacked a knowledge of prevention, we felt however that we were not reaching the Turkish immigrant women in our community, particularly the first generation. Methods: We organised special prevention programs only for Turkisch women. The second generation was defined as having gone to school in Austria. In 2002 910 Turkish women completed a questionnaire on selfassessed CVD risk factors. More than half of the participants (477) were young adult women between 20 und 40 years of age. Results varied widely between first and second generation. Results: The greatest differences were found in gender- and lifestyle-related risk factors. BMI> 30 (first 26.3%/second 6.2%), exercise 3 times a week (36.3%/71.3%) and healthy diet (61.7%/83.6%) showed significantly better results among secondgeneration women. Smoking (16.7%/38.5%) showed significantly worse results in secondgeneration women. Conclusions: Having fewer language barriers, twice as many second- as firstgeneration migrants consume German-language media.Even though fewer language barriers led better awareness of health risk factors to be expected in second-generation migrants, they were less informed about their clinically measured risk factors like blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels than was the first generation in the same age group. Thus, culturally coded gender expectations might be a stronger impetus for health behavior than health information for secondgeneration migrant women. Funding: State of Tyrol
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of SLE patients 55 years and older, APS was significant predictor of plaque presence since 91.79% of patient with carotid artery changes had APS (p=0.083). Conclusions: Presence of APS in SLE group of patients is a predictor of carotid arteries IMT changes. This is especially prominent in older patients.
part to the excellent networking that already exists in this ethnic group. Funding: State of Tyrol
345 Funding: none
344 PREVENTION, PHYSICAL EXERCISE M. Hochleitner1, A. Bader2. 1Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Women's Health Centre of the Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Objective: The Women's Health Center focuses on cardiac prevention. Numerous information events and diagnosis campaigns are offered, where heart risk profiles are drawn up. In self-assessment by our patients, on average 90% reply that they get ample physical exercise, even though we on average don't believe it. Our out-patient clinic for Turkish women shows that physical exercise entails special problems. This fact is known in this group and from the literature, and the patients also admit it. Methods: At two prevention campaigns in 2000 and 2001 we surveyed 1,536women. Results: Physical exercise at least three times a week for thirty minutes received a positive reply from only ¼ (403;26.2%) of the women, while ¾(1,126;73.3%) denied it and 7(0.5%) gave no answer. Conclusions: Since compliance is particularly questionable in this area, we decided to make an initiative through the Turkish women's out-patient clinic. First was a Walk-campaign. Once a week a one-hour accompanied walk through town was made, starting from the hospital. The women were examined before and after the program for heart risk factors, and incentives were offered for them get more exercise in the hope that networks for group walking would develop. Thereafter, an Exercise Group was started with healthy Turkish women who promised to exercise at the hospital for one hour once a week and to also do exercises at home. Compliance is very good with regard to attendance, which is certainly due in
HOW TO DO PREVENTION IN IMMIGRANT WOMEN – IS LANGUAGE A REAL BARRIER? A. Bader1, M. Hochleitner2. 1Women's Health Centre of the Innsbruck University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Objective: At the hospital we saw that Turkish women lacked a knowledge of prevention, we felt however that we were not reaching the Turkish immigrant women in our community, particularly the first generation. Methods: We organised special prevention programs only for Turkisch women. The second generation was defined as having gone to school in Austria. In 2002 910 Turkish women completed a questionnaire on selfassessed CVD risk factors. More than half of the participants (477) were young adult women between 20 und 40 years of age. Results varied widely between first and second generation. Results: The greatest differences were found in gender- and lifestyle-related risk factors. BMI> 30 (first 26.3%/second 6.2%), exercise 3 times a week (36.3%/71.3%) and healthy diet (61.7%/83.6%) showed significantly better results among secondgeneration women. Smoking (16.7%/38.5%) showed significantly worse results in secondgeneration women. Conclusions: Having fewer language barriers, twice as many second- as firstgeneration migrants consume German-language media.Even though fewer language barriers led better awareness of health risk factors to be expected in second-generation migrants, they were less informed about their clinically measured risk factors like blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels than was the first generation in the same age group. Thus, culturally coded gender expectations might be a stronger impetus for health behavior than health information for secondgeneration migrant women. Funding: State of Tyrol
S161