Risk factors

Other country profiles - Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) - STEP survey on Chronic Disease Risk Factors

The risk factors included are those that make the greatest contribution to mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular disease, can be changed through primary intervention, and are easily measured in populations. These risk factors are: tobacco and alcohol use, patterns of physical inactivity, low fruit/vegetable intake, overweight/obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol

The country profiles for Risk Factors are below:

Algeria [172.26 kB]	Lesotho [71.66 kB]
Angola [12.41 kB]	Liberia [85.79 kB]
Benin [177.14 kB]	Madagascar [143.46 kB]
Botswana [147.11 kB]	Malawi [166.68 kB]
Burkina Faso [163.35 kB]	Mali [147.6 kB]
Burundi [51.16 kB]	Mauritania [142.85 kB]
Cameroon [151.95 kB]	Mauritius [172.22 kB]
Cape Verde [12.49 kB]	Mozambique [139.71 kB]
Central African Rep. [89.69 kB]	Namibia [158.36 kB]
Chad [131.78 kB]	Niger [136.01 kB]
Comores [130.38 kB]	Nigeria [252.05 kB]
Congo [148.92 kB]	Rwanda [134.39 kB]
Cote D'Ivoire [139.64 kB]	Sao Tome & Principe [18.12 kB]
Dem. Rep. of Congo [12.56 kB]	Senegal [150.76 kB]
Equatorial Guinea [12.52 kB]	Seychelles [163.84 kB]
Eritrea [168.98 kB]	Sierra Leone [181.28 kB]
Ethiopia [162.7 kB]	South Africa [167.07 kB]
Gabon [130.91 kB]	Swaziland [93.11 kB]
Gambia [157.99 kB]	Tanzania [197.55 kB]
Ghana [186.69 kB]	Togo [138.31 kB]
Guinea [133.17 kB]	Uganda [140.28 kB]
Guinée-Bissau [12.48 kB]	Zambia [143.13 kB]
Kenya [195.52 kB]	Zimbabwe [229.47 kB]