J Korean Acad Nurs.  2009 Aug;39(4):594-601. 10.4040/jkan.2009.39.4.594.

Impact of Life Style Characteristics on Prevalence Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

• Yoo JS
• Jeong JI
• Park CG
• Kang SW
• Ahn JA

• KMID: 820236
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2009.39.4.594

Abstract

PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of life style characteristics on the prevalence risk of metabolic syndrome (MS).
METHODS
A total of 581 adults were recruited from a cardiovascular outpatient clinic. A newly developed comprehensive life style evaluation tool for MS patients was used, and patient data related to the MS diagnosis were reviewed from the hospital records.
RESULTS
The overall prevalence of MS was 53.2%, and the mean of MS score was 2.6 for patients at a cardiovascular outpatient clinic (78% of the patients had hypertension). Dietary habits among the life style characteristics had significant influence on the prevalence risk of MS and MS scores. And also interestingly, the classification and regression tree (CART) model suggested that the high prevalence risk groups for MS were older adults (61.5< or =age<79.4), and adults between 48.5 and 61.5 yr of age with bad dietary habits.
CONCLUSION
This study indicates that nurses should focus on dietary habits of patients (especially patients classified as high prevalence risk for MS) for improvement and prevention of MS prevalence risk.

Keyword

Life style; Dietary habits; Metabolic syndrome; Prevalence

MeSH Terms

Age Factors
Aged
Alcohol Drinking
Demography
Female
Food Habits
Humans
*Life Style
Male
Metabolic Syndrome X/diagnosis/epidemiology/*psychology
Middle Aged
Odds Ratio
Prevalence
Risk
Smoking
Stress, Psychological

Figure

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  Figure 1 Comparison of dietary habit scores among the metabolic syndrome score groups. *p<.05 between MS score 2 and MS score 5; **p<.01 between MS score 0 and MS score 5. MS=Metabolic syndrome.

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  Figure 2 CART model obtained for combined age, dietary habit and stress management score. Circled numbers depicted groups. 0 indicates non-MS group; 1, MS group. CART=classification and regression tree; MS=metabolic syndrome.

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