Impairments, health conditions and health risk behaviors: occurrence and associations, in the National Health Survey, Brazil, 2019

• Main Authors: Marina Carvalho Arruda Barreto (Author), Bárbara Bruna Rodrigues de Oliveira (Author), Ileana Pitombeira Gomes (Author), Mayra Solange Lopes de Vasconcelos (Author), Nayranne Hivina Carvalho Tavares (Author), Shamyr Sulyvan de Castro (Author), Larissa Fortunato Araújo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ministério da Saúde do Brasil, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 2237-9622; 10.1590/s2237-96222023000400002.en
• Keywords: Disabled Persons; Chronic Disease; Health Risk Behaviors; Cross-Sectional Studies; Medicine; R; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, Vol 32, Iss 4 (2023)

ABSTRACT Objective To analyze association of visual, hearing, mental/intellectual, physical and multiple impairments with health conditions and health risk behaviors in Brazil. Methods This was a cross-sectional study, using data from the 2019 National Health Survey; associations between impairments and presence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), high cholesterol, alcohol abuse and smoking were estimated using logistic regression, thus obtaining the odds ratios (OR). Results Impairment was reported by 7.6% of the 90,846 participants. Having a impairment was associated with greater odds of reporting chronic conditions, especially CVD (OR = 2.11; 95%CI 1.76;2.54) and DM (OR = 1.78; 95%CI 1.56;2.02 ); visual impairment was associated with greater odds of smoking (OR = 1.52; 95%CI 1.28;1.81); mental/intellectual impairment was inversely related to smoking (OR = 0.45; 95%CI 0.30;0.67) and alcohol abuse (OR = 0.13; 95%CI 0.06;0.26). Conclusion Having any of the impairments studied may be associated with greater odds of having chronic health conditions.