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ArticlePloS one2018

Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of biomarkers of cardio-metabolic disease in South Korea: Comparison of the Health Examinees Study to a nationally representative survey.

Sujin Kim, Juhwan Oh, Jongho Heo, Hwa-Young Lee, Jong-Koo Lee, S V Subramanian, Daehee Kang

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Sujin KimKorea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Sejong city, South Korea.
Juhwan OhJW Lee Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0983-4872
Jongho HeoJW Lee Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Hwa-Young LeeJW Lee Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Jong-Koo LeeJW Lee Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
S V SubramanianDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Daehee KangDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Seoul National University · KRHarvard University · US

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Abstract

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objectivesThis study aimed to examine socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the newly developed large-scale genomic cohort study of Korean adults, the Health Examinees-Gem (HEXA-G), with a comparison of the nationally representative cross-sectional study, the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (K-NHANES). SUBJECTS/

methodsUsing the HEXA-G and the K-NHANES from 2007-2012, we analyzed the age-adjusted relative risk (RR) and prevalence of enlarged waist circumference (EWC), elevated triglycerides (ET), low HDL cholesterol (LHC), elevated blood pressure (EBP) and elevated blood glucose (EBG) by income and educational groups for adults at age 40-69.

resultsFor men, the prevalence of risk factors was similar across different income and educational groups (p>0.1), and between the K-NHANES and the HEXA-G. Among five risk factors, EBG showed the greatest discrepancy by 7 to 11 percentage points (i.e., the prevalence of 0.43 and 0.36 for college graduates, respectively, in K-NHANES and HEXA-G). For women, socioeconomic inequalities appeared for the five risk factors. Prevalence of risk factors was mostly lower in the HEXA-G than the K-NHANES, by approximately 11.0 percentage points. Especially, the discrepancy between K-NHANES and HEXA-G was largest in EBG (i.e., the prevalence of 0.31 and 0.20 for the lowest income groups, respectively).

conclusionThe HEXA-G shows broadly similar socioeconomic inequality in prevalence of cardio-metabolic risk factors to the nationally representative sample with more modest socioeconomic inequality among women in the HEXA-G than the K-NHANES.

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Health Status DisparitiesAdultAgedBiomarkersCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHumansMaleMetabolic DiseasesMiddle AgedPrevalencePublic Health SurveillanceRepublic of KoreaSocial ClassSocioeconomic FactorsWaist CircumferenceBiomarkers

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