Overweigth, obesity, metabolic syndrome and waist/height index in health staff
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Keywords
Prevalence, Overweight, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome
Abstract
Background: Health staff self-applied strategies are insufficiently to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of this article is to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome and waist/height index on health staff.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study from January to April 2014 in 735 workers of the UMAE Specialties La Raza. A diagnosis of overweight and obesity was established according to WHO criteria and metabolic syndrome NCEP ATP-III. In 250 participants lipid profile and blood chemistry were obtained. Descriptive statistics was applied, chi square, Student t test or Kruskal-Wallis to compare groups.
Results: We included 496 women and 239 men (physicians, nurses and other workers). 38 % were overweight; 22 % had obesity. We found fasting hyperglycemia > 126 mg/dl in 5.1 %, between 100-126 mg/dl in 17.4 %, hypertriglyceridemia in 40.4 %; HDL cholesterol < 40 mg/dl 66 % in men and HDL cholesterol < 50 mg/dl 51.4 % in women. Waist measurement was 93 ± 11 cm in men vs. 88 ± 13 m in women. The waist/height index in the ideal weight group was 0.048 ± 0.04, for overweight 0.55 ± 0.04 and for obesity 0.65 ± 0.064 (p < 0.01). Metabolic syndrome prevalence was 30.6 %, smoking 21.6 % and alcohol consumption 35 %.
Conclusions: The prevalence of obesity-overweight was 60 % and metabolic syndrome 30 %, making it necessary to take immediate actions to modify the lifestyle of health staff.
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