Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022
Background: Knowledge of the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is important for its prevention. Methods: Data from a non-clinical test for the absolute risk of having a heart attack or stroke for the first time in the next ten years is available from 3,271 35- to 69-year-old participants in the G...
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| author | Roma Thamm Yong Du Laura Neuperdt Catarina Schiborn Birga Maier Anne Starker Hannelore Neuhauser Matthias B. Schulze Christin Heidemann |
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| description | Background: Knowledge of the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is important for its prevention. Methods: Data from a non-clinical test for the absolute risk of having a heart attack or stroke for the first time in the next ten years is available from 3,271 35- to 69-year-old participants in the GEDA 2022 study without a diagnosis of heart attack or stroke. This risk was categorised as low (< 5 %), still low (≥ 5 % – < 7.5 %), increased (≥ 7.5 % – < 10 %) and high (≥ 10 %). In addition, the self-perceived CVD risk was asked as almost no, low, moderate and high risk. Results: According to the CVD test, 73.5 % of adults were at low risk, 7.8 % were still at low risk, 6.0 % were at increased risk and 12.8 % were at high risk. In contrast, 28.7 % perceived themselves to be at almost no risk, 45.3 % at low risk, 20.4 % at moderate risk and 5.6 % at high risk of CVD. The higher the test-based risk, the lower the proportion of those who perceived themselves as having almost no or only a low risk. Nevertheless, half of the people with an increased to high risk according to the test result perceived themselves to be at almost no or only a low risk. The underestimation of risk was associated with lower education, better mental health and physical activity in both sexes. Conclusions: People who underestimate their risk of CVD despite an unfavourable risk factor profile are a key target group for cardiovascular prevention. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1a7654f5b83d48ce91389893227934cf2025-08-20T02:32:29ZdeuRobert Koch InstituteJournal of Health Monitoring2511-27082025-05-0110211210.25646/13126johm-10-2-02-e13126Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022Roma Thamm0Yong Du1Laura Neuperdt2Catarina Schiborn3Birga Maier4Anne Starker5Hannelore Neuhauser6Matthias B. Schulze7Christin Heidemann8Robert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringGerman Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE), Department of Molecular EpidemiologyRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringGerman Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE), Department of Molecular EpidemiologyRobert Koch Institute Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringBackground: Knowledge of the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is important for its prevention. Methods: Data from a non-clinical test for the absolute risk of having a heart attack or stroke for the first time in the next ten years is available from 3,271 35- to 69-year-old participants in the GEDA 2022 study without a diagnosis of heart attack or stroke. This risk was categorised as low (< 5 %), still low (≥ 5 % – < 7.5 %), increased (≥ 7.5 % – < 10 %) and high (≥ 10 %). In addition, the self-perceived CVD risk was asked as almost no, low, moderate and high risk. Results: According to the CVD test, 73.5 % of adults were at low risk, 7.8 % were still at low risk, 6.0 % were at increased risk and 12.8 % were at high risk. In contrast, 28.7 % perceived themselves to be at almost no risk, 45.3 % at low risk, 20.4 % at moderate risk and 5.6 % at high risk of CVD. The higher the test-based risk, the lower the proportion of those who perceived themselves as having almost no or only a low risk. Nevertheless, half of the people with an increased to high risk according to the test result perceived themselves to be at almost no or only a low risk. The underestimation of risk was associated with lower education, better mental health and physical activity in both sexes. Conclusions: People who underestimate their risk of CVD despite an unfavourable risk factor profile are a key target group for cardiovascular prevention.https://www.rki.de/EN/News/Publications/Journal-of-Health-Monitoring/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus_en/JHealthMonit_2025_02_risk_cardiovascular_disease.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2adultscardiovascular diseasesheart attackrisk factorsstrokehealth status |
| spellingShingle | Roma Thamm Yong Du Laura Neuperdt Catarina Schiborn Birga Maier Anne Starker Hannelore Neuhauser Matthias B. Schulze Christin Heidemann Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 Journal of Health Monitoring adults cardiovascular diseases heart attack risk factors stroke health status |
| title | Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 |
| title_full | Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 |
| title_fullStr | Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 |
| title_short | Risk of cardiovascular disease in Germany: results from GEDA 2022 |
| title_sort | risk of cardiovascular disease in germany results from geda 2022 |
| topic | adults cardiovascular diseases heart attack risk factors stroke health status |
| url | https://www.rki.de/EN/News/Publications/Journal-of-Health-Monitoring/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus_en/JHealthMonit_2025_02_risk_cardiovascular_disease.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 |
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