New Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions Study Findings Have Been Reported from Seoul National University College of Medicine (Cardiovascular…

New Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions Study Findings Have Been Reported from Seoul National University College of Medicine (Cardiovascular disease risk differences between bus company employees and general workers according to the Korean ...)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Heart Disease Weekly -- New research on Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Bus drivers are known to be highly at risk of cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we assessed the cardiovascular disease prevalence of bus company employees in Seoul, South Korea, and compared the results to those of general workers."

Financial support for this research came from Korean Automobile & Transport Worker’s Federation (see also Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions).

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Seoul National University College of Medicine, "We analyzed the 2014 Korean National Health Insurance (NHI) data and defined hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease based on the KCD-6 medical diagnoses. We used bus company employees as surrogate participants of bus drivers due to the characteristics of Korean NHI data. We identified bus company employees in Seoul based on one's workplace which the insurance is registered. The prevalence of five diseases was compared between the bus company employees and general workers. We also calculated the odds ratios (OR) of five diseases between the bus company employees and general workers. To compensate the vast demographical differences between the two groups, we performed propensity score matching. Bus company employees have higher OR for having hypertension (OR 1.33, 95% CI: 1.28-1.39), diabetes mellitus (1.14, 95% CI: 1.08-1.22), and dyslipidemia (1.23, 95% CI: 1.17-1.29) than the general workers or propensity score matched controls. However, the OR of having ischemic heart disease were not significant. The OR of cerebrovascular disease were lower in bus company employees than in the general workers after adjusting the covariates, but similar in the propensity score matched model. This study showed that the ORs of cardiovascular disease risk factors are high in bus company employees when compared to the general working population."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Further studies with the longitudinal design should be conducted to confirm the causal association."

For more information on this research see: Cardiovascular disease risk differences between bus company employees and general workers according to the Korean National Health Insurance Data. Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018;30():32.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.H. Yook, 1Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include D.W. Lee, M.S. Kim and Y.C Hong.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40557-018-0242-z. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Seoul, Cardiology, South Korea, Epidemiology, Health Insurance, Health and Medicine, Insurance Companies, Risk and Prevention, Cardiovascular Research, Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions.

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