%0 Journal Article
%T Cardiovascular Risk Factors (CVrf) in Rural and Urban Areas Mali: Data from the Step 2013 Survey
%A Hamidou Oumar Ba
%A Ichaka Menta
%A Youssouf Camara
%A Ibrahima Sangar¨¦
%A Guida Landour¨¦
%A Georges Rosario Christian Millogo
%A Souleymane Coulibaly
%A Ilo Bella Diall
%J World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases
%P 35-47
%@ 2164-5337
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjcd.2018.81005
%X Background: Traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVrf) like hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, smoking have been studied extensively through theses in hospital studies. Therefore, recent published data from community based studies are rare in Mali. Available data are old justifying to perform a community based study on traditional CVrf in rural and urban areas. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively performed a study which data stemmed from the last STEPS survey carried out in 2013 in some rural and urban areas of Mali. We studied hypertension, diabetes, tobacco smoking, obesity based on body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio. After bivariates analyses, we conducted a logistic regression with rural/urban as dependent variable using SPSS as analysis software for this purpose. Results: Weight, height, WC and HC were higher in urban area with 69.77 Kg, 169.13 cm, 85.98 cm and 97.26 cm compared to 66.27, 165.42, 81.46 and 93.23 in rural area (p < 0.001). We had more female in rural area and educational level was higher in urban area. In bivariate analysis obesity based on BMI, WC, alcohol consumption was more prevalent in urban area while elevated waist-to-hip ratio was more prevalent in rural area. But in logistic regression for female, the Odds for Tobacco smoking rural as reference was 0.334 [CI: 0.151 - 0.738] (p = 0.007) and that for WHr is 0.582 [CI: 0.415 - 0.815] (