The Metabolic Syndrome among Health Care Providers in Fort Hospital, Udonthani Province.

Abstract

This descriptive research aimed to study the metabolic syndrome and the association between metabolic syndrome and personel data, health behaviors, body examination and laboratory blood   testing results among health care providers in Fort Hospital, Udonthani province. The study included a total of 245 health care providers divided in to two groups, 71 samples had the metabolic syndrome and 174 samples did not have it. Collecting data used questionnaires, body examination and laboratory blood testing. Research conducted on January to April 2018. Descriptive statistics and chi-square were employed to analyze the data.

The results found that 29.0% of health provider has metabolic syndrome. Personal data, 53.5% of the metabolic syndrome group was male, 95.8% had age over 35 years old, 84.5% had coupled marital status was and 35.2% had chronic diseases. Health behaviors found that both groups had lived an    abusive behaviors by taking sweet, salty and greasy food, had no regularly exercise but the metabolic syndrome group had more smoking (9.9% vs 5.2%) and drinking alcohol (36.6% vs 29.3%) than normal subjects. Body examination revealed all of the metabolic syndrome group had over standard waist   circumference, 69.0% had higher blood pressure (more than 130/85 mmHg), 78.9% had BMI ≥25 kg/m². Laboratory blood testing results, 56.3% of the metabolic syndrome group had low HLD cholesterol, 31.0% had high triglyceride and 49.3% had high blood glucose level. Factors associated with the      metabolic syndrome found gender, age, marital status, disease, consume sweet, salty and greasy food, waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglyceride and blood glucose level were found to be    associated with the metabolic syndrome with a statistically significance difference at p=0.05. This finding can be useful for treatment, surveillance, promotion and prevention of metabolic syndrome in Fort  hospital and other places.