Lifestyle factors in risks of chronic non-communicable diseases in young people (literature meta-analysis)

Healthy lifestyle formation and protection of people’s health is a complex multifactorial process directly associated with the prevention component in the healthcare system. To protect health of future generations, it is necessary to consider and control lifestyle-related factors in young people. The aim of this study was to determine lifestyle-related factors and associated functional changes in the body as risk indicators of chronic non-communicable diseases in young people. The review relied on meta-analysis of data obtained from various research databases over the period between 2013 and 2023. Analyzed studies employed variable research methods inducing questioning, anthropometric measurements, functional tests and biochemical analyses. The obtained data were statistically analyzed by using cluster analysis in Statistica 10. The results of the accomplished meta-analysis have shown two major locuses that can be identified among risk factors influencing young people’s health. The first one is hypodynamia and associated unhealthy diets and essential hypertension. The second one is bad habits, smoking holding the absolutely first rank place among them. We have identified basic lifestyle-related health risk factors of chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) for young people, namely, hypodynamia and smoking. It seems necessary to develop statistical report forms in order to control the health risk factors highlighted in this review within the social-hygienic monitoring.