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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
TRIAD
Total
Angina / heart attack / high cholesterol
Arthritis / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / obesity
Arthritis / diabetes / high cholesterol
Angina / heart attack / obesity
Arthritis / asthma / obesity
Diabetes / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
High blood pressure / obesity / high cholesterol
Arthritis / asthma / high cholesterol
Angina / arthritis / high cholesterol
Sex - Male
Angina / heart attack / high cholesterol
Arthritis / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / obesity
Diabetes / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Sex - Female
Arthritis / asthma / obesity
Arthritis / asthma / high cholesterol
Arthritis / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / high cholesterol
Angina / diabetes / high blood pressure
Age - Less than 65 years
Arthritis / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Arthritis / asthma / obesity
Arthritis / diabetes / obesity
High blood pressure / obesity / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / high cholesterol
Age - More than 65 years
Angina / heart attack / high cholesterol
Arthritis / high blood pressure / high cholesterol
Arthritis / diabetes / obesity
Arthritis / diabetes / high cholesterol
Angina / heart attack / obesity
% (95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL)
6.2 (5.9-6.6) 6.1 (5.7-6.5) 5.2 (4.9-5.5) 4.6 (4.3-4.8) 4.1 (3.8-4.5) 3.4 (3.1-3.7) 2.8 (2.6-3.1) 2.8 (2.6-3.0) 2.6 (2.3-2.8) 2.4 (2.2-2.6)
7.8 (7.4-8.2) 7.4 (6.9-7.9) 5.5 (5.1-5.9) 3.9 (3.7-4.2) 3.4 (3.1-3.7)
7.6 (5.9-9.4) 7.6 (6.1-9.1) 6.7 (5.3-8.2) 4.9 (3.8-5.9) 3.4 (2.3-4.5)
7.3 (6.5-8.1) 6.2 (5.6-6.8) 5.8 (5.2-6.3) 5.3 (4.7-5.8) 4.5 (4.0-5.1)
7.4 (7.0-7.9) 5.4 (5.0-5.8) 4.9 (4.6-5.2) 4.6 (4.2-4.9) 4.2 (3.9-4.5)
expectancy increases, the number of veterans with MCC is expected to rise. Ongoing surveillance of MCC burden in veterans can provide prevalence estimates to individuals leading prevention efforts and could improve the targeting of interventions.
DECLARATIONS
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable (involves analyses of secondary data).
Consent for publication: Not applicable (no identifying images or personal clinical data are reported)
Availability of data and materials:
Publicly available data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Competing interests: I declare no competing interests.
Funding: No funding source to disclose.
Authors’ contributions: I am the sole author responsible for all content in this manuscript.
Acknowledgements: I thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for making available the data for this research.
CONTRIBUTORS
■ SANGEETA GUPTA, MD, MPH is a Professor of Public Health at Delaware State University. She is interested in applying epidemiologic methods to address the influences of socio-economic and place-based factors on chronic diseases.
See references on next page.
a Angina, arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic kidney disease, COPD, diabetes, high blood
pressure, high cholesterol, myocardial infarction (heart attack), obesity, and stroke
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