最近，美国学者分析了2009年美国各州的调查资料，结果显示如果综合考虑“血压、总胆固醇、吸烟、体重指数、糖尿病、体育锻炼和水果与蔬菜摄入量”等7项对心脑血管健康可产生显著影响的因素，全美仅有3%的人达到了理想水平（即血压正常、胆固醇水平不高、不吸烟、不超重、无糖尿病、经常进行体育锻炼和进食水果与蔬菜较多等），10%的美国人口具有较多的不利于心脑血管健康之上述因素（如高血压、高胆固醇、吸烟等），及其生活在经济欠发达地区如俄克拉哈马、西弗吉尼亚、密苏里等州的人们具有较多的不利于心脑血管健康之危险因素，生活在华盛顿特区、沃特和弗吉尼亚等地区或州的人们具有最少的不利于心脑血管健康之因素。总体上讲，美国地处东北部的新英格兰地区和发达的西海岸地区的人们具有较少的不利于心脑血管健康之危险因素。

上述结果显示，人们的经济条件，及其受教育程度将直接影响他或她们的生活方式，进而影响心脑血管的健康程度。显然，对低收入、欠发达地区的人们实施有效的健康教育，以提升他或她们的健康水平具有紧迫性！

摘译自: http://newsroom.heart.org/pr/aha/americans-heart-health-varies-241864.aspx

Using 2009 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System – a telephone survey of more than 350,000 people in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. –researchers collected information on the American Heart Association’s seven major heart-health factors: blood pressure, total cholesterol, smoking, body mass index, diabetes, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable consumption. These factors are used as a proxy measure in this study for a healthy diet.

Researchers found:

1、The percentage of the population reporting ideal cardiovascular health — defined as having optimal levels of all seven factors — was lowest in Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Mississippi and highest in Washington, D.C., Vermont and Virginia.

2、About 3 percent of the total U.S. population reported having ideal heart health.

3、About 10 percent of the total population reported having poor cardiovascular health, with two or less heart-health factors at optimal levels.

4、In general, people living in western and New England states reported having a higher percentage of ideal cardiovascular health.