1. Metabolic Syndrome Among Primary Health Care Nursing Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study †
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Julita Maria Freitas Coelho, Manuela Conceição das Merces Miranda, Daniel Deivson Alves Portella, Lucélia Batista Neves Cunha Magalhães, Virgínia Paiva Figueiredo, Douglas de Souza e Silva, Amália Ivine Costa Santana, Caroline da Silva Barbosa, Sueli Bonfim Lago, Iracema Lua, Maria Lúcia Silva Servo, Magno Conceição das Merces, Marcio Costa de Souza, Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes, Sergio Corrêa Marques, Argemiro D'Oliveira Júnior, Dandara Almeida Reis da Silva, and Edilene Maria Queiroz Araújo
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Adult ,Male ,Multivariate analysis ,Alcohol Drinking ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Population ,education ,lcsh:Medicine ,Nurses ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Burnout, Psychological ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,nursing ,work ,medicine ,Prevalence ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Poisson regression ,Acanthosis Nigricans ,National Cholesterol Education Program ,Exercise ,Life Style ,Anamnesis ,Metabolic Syndrome ,education.field_of_study ,Primary Health Care ,business.industry ,Technician ,lcsh:R ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Guideline ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,symbols ,Female ,Metabolic syndrome ,business ,Brazil - Abstract
This research aims at evaluating prevalence and factors associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) in primary health care (PHC) nursing professionals. A multicenter, population-based and cross-sectional study was conducted in a team-tested sample of 1125 PHC nurses in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Sociodemographic, labor, lifestyle and human biology variables were investigated by mean of anamnesis. MS was evaluated according to the criteria of the first Brazilian Guideline for Metabolic Syndrome, which fully adopts the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program&rsquo, s Adult Treatment Panel III. MS-associated factors were tested by using robust Poisson Regression. The prevalence of MS found was 24.4%, low High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol was the most prevalent component of the syndrome. In the multivariate analysis, physical inactivity (PR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.02&ndash, 1.53), alcohol use (PR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.22&ndash, 2.77), acanthosis nigricans (PR = 3.23, 95% CI = 2.65&ndash, 3.92), burnout syndrome (PR = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.17&ndash, 1.81), (PR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.12&ndash, 1.69), working as a nursing technician (PR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.14&ndash, 1.80), were associated to MS. It was found that the prevalence of MS was high, which evidences the need for interventions in the PHC environment, improvement of working conditions, monitoring of worker safety and health, diet programs and physical activity.
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- 2019