Cent Eur J Public Health 2011, 19(2):67-72 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3621

The Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking and its Relation to Certain Risk Predictors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Central-Slovakian Roma Children and Adolescents

Zuzana Hujová1, Roman Alberty1, Edita Paulíková2, Ivan Ahlers2, Eva Ahlersová2, Drahoslav Gábor3, Michael Dove4
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Matthias Belius University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2 Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
3 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, F. D. Roosevelt Faculty Hospital, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
4 Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Matthias Belius University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

The objective of the study was to determine some Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors in relation to cigarette smoking in 174 Roma children and adolescents (88 males and 86 females) and 131 non-Roma probands (males and females) aged 7-18 in central Slovakia. In this biethnic study, 26.4% of the Roma children and adolescents (more than twice contrary to the control group) were smokers. Among the studied ethnicities, the majority of smokers was Roma (79.3%, 46 subjects). Smoking Roma have higher means of TG, Lp(a) and WHR compared with non-smoking non-Roma. The most frequent CVD risk predictors of smoking Roma probands was low serum levels HDL-C, apo A (the Fisher test confirmed a significant relationship between cigarette smoking and HDL-C, apo A; p<0.01). The results of the research should help to develop an effective preventative health education programs focused on Roma education (who live in a higher-risk environment compared to the majority population) in order to stem the spread of CVD as well as morbidity and mortality in this ethnic group living in Slovakia.

Keywords: Roma, children, adolescents, cigarette smoking, cardiovascular risk factors

Received: April 18, 2010; Revised: April 19, 2011; Accepted: April 19, 2011; Published: June 1, 2011  Show citation

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Hujová Z, Alberty R, Paulíková E, Ahlers I, Ahlersová E, Gábor D, Dove M. The Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking and its Relation to Certain Risk Predictors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Central-Slovakian Roma Children and Adolescents. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2011;19(2):67-72. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3621. PubMed PMID: 21739893.
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