Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in the Spanish Working Population: MESYAS Registry

Alegría, Eduardo; Cordero, Alberto; Laclaustra, Martín; Grima, Alberto; León, Montserrat; Casasnovas, José Antonio Martínez; Luengo, Emilio; Río, Alfonso del; Ferreira, Ignacio

doi:10.1016/s1885-5857(06)60508-2

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“…The link of education and work qualification with the occurrence of MS has been documented in various countries. [32][33][34][35][36][37] However, as for the single cardiovascular RFs, these studies have been usually performed either in young and middle-aged populations, or among active workers. We observed that the level of education and current or previous employment was associated with the prevalence of MS also among elderly persons, mostly retired or who had never worked, in a general context of a low social status.…”

Section: Cardiovascular Risk In Elderly Outpatients T Marotta Et Almentioning

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Improvement of cardiovascular risk profile in an elderly population of low social level: the ICON (Improving Cardiovascular risk profile in Older Neapolitans) study

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Older age and low socio-economic conditions are associated with poor control of cardiovascular risk factors (RFs). We assessed the prevalence and awareness of cardiovascular RFs in 503 elderly outpatients of low social status attending two public Internal Medicine clinics in Naples, and studied the interaction of education and employment level with risk profile. The therapeutic intervention was oriented to improve patients' motivation through a positive patient-physician relationship, in keeping with the current guidelines for hypertension. The effect of treatment was evaluated by comparing retrospectively the level of cardiovascular RFs at baseline and at the last follow-up examination performed within 31 October 2005. Only 33.3% of patients (age ¼ 6876 years) had attended primary school. Overall (current or previous) employment level was also low. Obesity, hypertension and dyslipidaemias were present in most patients, diabetes in 17.3% of them. In all 8.0% of hypertensives, 16.1% of diabetics and 24.7% of dyslipidaemics were unaware of their diseases. Cardiovascular risk profile was worse at lower educational and employment levels. Odds ratios for the metabolic syndrome were 0.28 (95% confidence interval (CI) ¼ 0.15-0.52) and 0.35 (0.20-0.62) in the most qualified of three education and employment groups, respectively, compared to the lowest ones. The level of all cardiovascular RFs was effectively reduced during treatment. Control rate of most RFs improved significantly (for hypertension, from 12.8 to 36.5%, Po0.001). These patients had a high prevalence of cardiovascular RFs, which correlated with their educational and work activity levels. Awareness of their health status was unsatisfactory. Treatment, specifically addressing patient-physician relationship, favourably affected cardiovascular risk profile.

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Section: Cardiovascular Risk In Elderly Outpatients T Marotta Et Almentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of cardiovascular risk profile in an elderly population of low social level: the ICON (Improving Cardiovascular risk profile in Older Neapolitans) study

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“…Industrial Health 2012, 50, [115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122] overall prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is about 25% in general populations from the United States (US) and Europe [5][6][7] . In Korea, 31% of men and 27.6% of women have the metabolic syndrome in nationally representative samples 8) .…”

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Disparities of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence by Age, Gender and Occupation among Korean Adult Workers

Myong

Kim

Jung-Choi³

et al. 2012

Ind Health

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Occupation can influence the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Age and gender could interact with the association between occupation and metabolic syndrome. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among the Korean working population and determine whether the prevalence differed according to occupation, age and gender. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Korean adults using the Third Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES III). The analysis included 3,288 workers over 19 yr old. The prevalence odds ratios (PORs) of metabolic syndrome among representative types of occupations were estimated after stratification for age and gender by logistic regression. Female manual workers had a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome than female non-manual workers among those younger than age 50 (POR=1.95, 95%CI=1.12-3.40). However, female manual workers aged 50 and older had a lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than female non-manual workers (POR=0.36, 95%CI=0.22-0.59). Manual occupations can be a risk factor for metabolic syndrome, but this correlation is limited to younger female workers. The effects of occupation on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome were different between older and younger workers, which could be due to longitudinal transition of socio-cultural structure.

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“…The higher prevalence among women may be due higher prevalence of obesity among women, and also the relatively sedentary life style of women in this part of the world, from socio cultural barriers in which women do not engage in work related physical activities. A few studies however reported equal prevalence between gender and even a male preponderance, which may be probably, due to different methodologies ( Alegria et al, 2005;Ohta et al, 2007;Badr et al, 2007;Abu et al, 2008;Fezeu et al, 2007).…”

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Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic syndrome among hypertensive patients attending a tertiary hospital in Kano, Nigeria

Saidu¹,

Kabir²

2017

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Hypertension is the most common and important cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor, frequently clustering with other risk factors to increase cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. This study therefore, aimed to assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) among hypertensive subjects using the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III(NCEP -ATP III)in a tertiary hospital, in Kano, North -Western Nigeria. This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the hypertensive clinic of Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano. Structured pretested interviewer administered questionnaire was used for data collection. A population of 240 hypertensive patients ( 119 males and 121 females) over the age of 18 years were screened for metabolic syndrome by determining the body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, levels of fasting plasma glucose and fasting plasma lipids. Out of the 240 patients studied, 92(38.2%) patients met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. 26(28.6%) of them were males and 66(71.4%) were females. Type II diabetes mellitus was found in 85(35.8%), impaired fasting glucose in 18(7.5%), high plasma triglycerides in 58(24.4%) and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol in 79(33%).Obesity was found in 105(43.8%). The prevalence of metabolic syndrome among hypertensives in Kano is high. Therefore, regular screening and control of hypertension and other CVD risk factors is necessary to prevent complications.

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Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in the Spanish Working Population: MESYAS Registry

Cited by 49 publications

References 36 publications

Improvement of cardiovascular risk profile in an elderly population of low social level: the ICON (Improving Cardiovascular risk profile in Older Neapolitans) study

Improvement of cardiovascular risk profile in an elderly population of low social level: the ICON (Improving Cardiovascular risk profile in Older Neapolitans) study

Disparities of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence by Age, Gender and Occupation among Korean Adult Workers

Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic syndrome among hypertensive patients attending a tertiary hospital in Kano, Nigeria

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