J Korean Biol Nurs Sci.  2018 Nov;20(4):261-269. 10.7586/jkbns.2018.20.4.261.

Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in Adult Women

Affiliations
  • 1College of Nursing, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2Department of Nursing, Joongbu University, Chungnam, Korea. hjchae@joongbu.ac.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and diagnostic components in adult women.
METHODS
The subjects of this study were 12,016 women that were aged twenty years or older and underwent an annual health check-up for National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) from 2009 to 2013. Data including blood pressure, waist circumstance, fasting glucose, triglyceride, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) were received from the NHIS. This data was analyzed through the use of descriptive statistics, χ2-test, and multiple logistic regression.
RESULTS
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and diagnostic components increased with age. In the five diagnostic components of the metabolic syndrome, the prevalence of low HDL-C was highest in 20s to 40s. The prevalence of high blood pressure was highest in the people aged fifty or older. The risk of metabolic syndrome in 2013 was higher in women with abnormal diagnostic component of metabolic syndrome in 2009 and highest in women with abnormal waist circumstance in 2009.
CONCLUSION
There was a need to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome components according to age. Education on metabolic syndrome was required for those that had one or two abnormal diagnostic components. The risk of abdominal obesity related to metabolic syndrome needs to be emphasized. Moreover the education for management of abdominal obesity also needs to be emphasised.

Keyword

Metabolic syndrome; Component; Prevalence; Women

MeSH Terms

Adult*
Blood Pressure
Cholesterol, HDL
Education
Fasting
Female
Glucose
Humans
Hypertension
Logistic Models
National Health Programs
Obesity, Abdominal
Prevalence*
Triglycerides
Cholesterol, HDL
Glucose
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