The purpose of this study is to find out relations between the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in health examinees of a university hospital and their exercise habits. Aimed at 106,621 health examinees of Seoul A Hospital, the total prevalence of meta...
The purpose of this study is to find out relations between the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in health examinees of a university hospital and their exercise habits. Aimed at 106,621 health examinees of Seoul A Hospital, the total prevalence of metabolic syndrome and the prevalence per sex and per age in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 each were checked. According to the diagnosis criteria of International Diabetes Federation including BMI as necessary one, the examinees of 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 were classified, and the metabolic syndrome of those examinees of 2005 and 2007 was re-classified under the .adjusted criteria of IDF which necessarily include Asia/Pacific-Criteria Waist Circumference. Then, relations between the determinant factors of the syndrome and exercise habits of the examinees of each year were researched. Here are the results of this study:
1. The total prevalence in case checked according to BMI was 16.3%, 16.5%, 16.4% and 15.1% in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, which showed no significant difference between the years; in case checked under APC-WC, it was 11.2% and 12.2% in 2005 and 2007, respectively, which had significant difference in the prevalence from one another (<.001).
2. As for the classification of metabolic syndrome per sex and per age, according to the BMI-applied diagnosis criteria, the prevalence of the syndrome was greater in males than in females in the case of the examinees of their thirties, but was higher in females than in males when they were their fifties and over (<.001).
3. In the case of classification per age, the prevalence fended to decrease in the females of their forties to sixties (<.001).
4. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome of the males was observed to slightly decrease without increase as those examinees became older, but in the case of the classification under APC-WC criteria, it increased both in the males and males as they became older (<.001).
5. In the analysis on relations between the determinant factors of the syndrome and its prevalence, the prevalence was most highly related with BMI and APC-WC, which were used as necessary diagnosis criteria, and secondly with the items of blood pressure (SBP, DBP). It also increased as the level of HDL-cholesterol and glucose became increased. The factor which had the Beast contribution to the prevalence was neutral fat (<.001).
6. Neutral fat and glucose tended to be given increasingly more weight, in the relation of the determinant factors and the prevalence (<.001).
7. No factor of exercise habit had effects in successive years on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, in the examination of relations between the syndrome and exercise habit. It was difficult to decide any significant effects of 'exercise frequency on it; more than 20 minutes of exercise duration was significant; and exercise intensities of 'light' and 'a little difficult' were observed to decrease the prevalence in the males and of 'middle' and 'a little difficult' were shown to be significant in the females(<.05).