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3-7. People living with multiple risk factors

In 2017, around a third (32.7%) of South Australians aged 18 years or more were living with two or more of the following risk factors: (i) current high blood pressure; (ii) current high cholesterol; (iii) undertakes less than 150 minutes per week of walking, moderate or vigorous physical activity; (iv) overweight or obese; (v) current smoker; (vi) long-term alcohol risk; and/or (vii) insufficient consumption of fruit and vegetables¹.
The rate varies between the local health networks (LHNs) from 23.3% in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu LHN to 47.4% in the Eyre and Far North LHN¹.
The proportion of people that live with multiple risk factors in Country SA (32.7%) is equivalent to metropolitan Adelaide (also 32.7%)¹.
A statistically significant increasing trend over the last decade in the proportion of people reporting living with two or more risk factors was identified in the metropolitan Adelaide time series but not for Country SA¹.

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Data source: SA Health 2018

In 2017, the proportion of males (33.2%) living with two or more of the following risk factors: (i) current high blood pressure; (ii) current high cholesterol; (iii) undertakes less than 150 minutes per week of walking, moderate or vigorous physical activity; (iv) overweight or obese; (v) current smoker; (vi) long-term alcohol risk; and/or (vii) insufficient consumption of fruit and vegetables was statistically not significantly higher than the female rate (32.3%)¹.
The proportion is correlated with age¹.

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Data source: SA Health 2018

There is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the proportion of people aged 18 years and over living with two or more of the following risk factors: (i) current high blood pressure; (ii) current high cholesterol; (iii) undertakes less than 150 minutes per week of walking, moderate or vigorous physical activity; (iv) overweight or obese; (v) current smoker; (vi) long-term alcohol risk; and/or (vii) insufficient consumption of fruit and vegetables and the socio-economic status of the area in which they live¹.
The proportion recorded in areas constituting South Australia's highest socio-economic (SES) quintile (23.2%) is around half that for the lowest SES quintile (40.1%)¹.

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Data source: SA Health 2018

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Based on South Australian Monitoring and Surveillance System customised extract 2018, Prevention and Population Health, SA Health, Adelaide, 16 August 2018.