Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence and its Individual Risk Factors Characteristics in Population of Central Serbia

The influence of specific aspects of occupational stress on security guards’ health and work ability: detailed extension of a previous study

“…Unfortunately, since the OSI questionnaire by Belkić has been only been used in the population of Serbian and Swedish workers so far ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 38 , 39 , 44 , 45 , 46 ), we cannot directly compare our data with the data on the levels of specific occupational stressors in security guards in other countries, which would be very interesting to see. However, we could compare them with the data obtained with the same questionnaire for other professions in Serbia, such as professional drivers ( 40 , 41 , 42 ), bank employees ( 41 ), and electronic ( 41 ) and metal industry ( 41 ) workers, as presented in Table 5 .…”

“…Recently we have shown a surprisingly high prevalence of health impairments in 399 security guards (aged 25–65 years, mean age 45.6 years) in Serbia ( 4 ). Hyperglycaemia (77.2 %), dyslipidaemia (82.7 %), hypertension (69.9 %), metabolic syndrome (77.7 %), and diabetes (38.8 %) had much higher prevalence than in the general population or male workers in other professions in Serbia ( 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ) or the world ( 43 ). More interestingly, this surprisingly high prevalence of health impairments was not related to obesity (as one could expect, considering the known association between these health impairments and adiposity), as most security guards (56.9 %) were not overweight or obese.…”