Metabolic Syndrome in Nurses
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https://doi.org/10.14306/renhyd.16.3.72Keywords:
Metabolic syndrome X, Nursing staff hospital, Questionnaire, Observational study, Anthropometry, Blood chemical analysisAbstract
Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in female nurses in the Hospital Juan A. Fernandez (HJAF), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and to determine whether work, rest, diet, and health, are predictive of it.
Materials and methods: For the first objective, a descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was conducted, and for the second, a multivariate cross-sectional observational multivariate analysis was made comparing independent samples. A total of 192 nurses were studied between October 2008 and March 2009. They completed a questionnaire that include indicators that could be predictors of MS. Anthropometric measurements, including blood pressure were taken, was well as a blood sample to analyze fasting glucose, HDL-C and plasma triglycerides.
Results: It was found that 35% and 41% of nurses were overweight and obese, respectively. A total of 92% had centro-abdominal obesity. The prevalence of MS found was 33.3% (95%CI, 26.7 to 40.5). Those who had this disease were between 53±9 years. Statistically significant differences were found in the bivariate analysis between MS and the variables, age, length of service, time worked during night shift, and academic studies.
Conclusions: The prevalence of MS was 64/192 in HJAF nurses (33.3% I 95%CI, 26.7-40.5). There were no statistically significant differences with the indicators of, age, “time worked during night shift”, and “studies”. These results suggest that age is the most important variable in predicting the onset of MS in the population of nurses.
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