Abstract 19028: Assessment of American Heart Association’s Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics Among Employees of Large Health Care Organization: the Baptist Health South Florida Employee Study

INTRODUCTION: Health care organizations and their employees are critical role models for healthy living for their communities. The American Heart Association (AHA) 2020 goals provide a national framework, which can be used as track success of employee wellness programs focued on improving the cardiovascular health. The current study aims to assess the baseline cardiovascular health among insured employees of Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF), a large not-for-profit health care organization. METHODS: CVD health metrics were categorized into ideal, intermediate, or poor categories based on 7 CVD risk factors/health behaviors estimated among individuals participating in a voluntary annual health risk assessment (HRA) and wellness fair available to all employees. RESULTS: The sample consists of 9996 employees who participated in 2013 annual HRA and wellness fair (mean age 43.1±12.1 years, 75% women). Screening participants on average met 4.25±1.14 ideal cardiovascular health metrics. The table describes the prevalence of ideal CVD metrics among the study participant across age and gender. Only 60 (0.6%) of participants met the AHA’s definition of ideal health in all metrics and 36% met 4 or more ideal health metric The prevalence of having “intermediate” cardiovascular health (at least 1 intermediate metric and no poor metrics) was also 29.4%. Majority (70%) had “poor” cardiovascular health (at least 1 poor health metric). Overall 3/4 th participants reached ideal status for smoking, physical activity levels, and glycemic control, whereas the majority of participants had poor to intermediate BMI and health diet score. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health is low among employees of a large health care organization. Future tracking of the CVD metrics will provide critical feedback on the impact of system wide wellness efforts as well identify proactive programs to assist in progress toward the AHA 2020 Impact Goal

Abstract P004: Three Year Trends of Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics Among Employees of a Large Health Care Organization: The Baptist Health South Florida Employee Study

BACKGROUND: More than 1 in 3 U.S. adults has cardiovascular disease (CVD). The U.S. workforce makes up over 50% of the entire population, making the workplace the ideal setting for addressing the burden of CVD. This study used the American Heart Association’s (AHA) cardiovascular (CV) health metrics to assess the risk of CVD over 3 years among employees of Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF), a large nonprofit health care organization. METHODS: Ideal CV health is defined by the AHA as meeting ideal status in 7 health metrics: diet, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, blood pressure, total cholesterol, blood glucose and smoking. The health metrics were calculated using data collected annually from voluntary wellness fairs and health risk assessments. Each metric was categorized as ideal, intermediate or poor according to AHA criteria. RESULTS: Data were collected for a total of 6147 employees in 2011, 11112 in 2012 and 9996 in 2013. For each year, approximately 75% were women and mean age (SD) was 43..