Prevalence of conventional cardiovascular disease risk factors among Chinese Kazakh individuals of diverse occupational backgrounds in Xinjiang China

Kazakh is a typical transnational ethnic group with the Eurasian lineage. It is the main ethnic group in Kazakhstan, and one of the ethnic minorities in China, Russia, Turkeymore than 40 other countries and regions. There are an approximately 1.25 million Kazak populations in China, of which 96.4% is located in northern Xinjiang [1]. For thousands of years, China's Kazakh people are mainly active in raising livestock on the prairie grasslands.With the development of the urbanization, Kazak people naturally formed three different subgroups with different occupation backgrounds (i.e., nomads, farmers, and urban residents). When cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are more prevalent in urban China, little is known about the prevalence about this ethnic group. To investigate the prevalence of CVD conventional risk factors among Kazakh individuals of different occupational backgrounds the baseline data of The Xinjiang Altay Kazakh Heart Study (XAKHS) was used.