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Metabolic Syndrome Among Primary Health Care Nursing Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study

2019; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 16; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/ijerph16152686

1661-7827

Magno Conceição das Mercês, Amália Ivine Costa Santana, Iracema Lua, Dandara Almeida Reis da Silva, Douglas de Souza e Silva, Antônio Marcos Tosoli Gomes, Manuela Conceição das Merces Miranda, Caroline da Silva Barbosa, Lucélia Neves dos Santos, Julita Maria Freitas Coelho, Maria Lúcia Silva Servo, Daniel Deivson Alves Portella, Márcio Costa de Souza, Sueli Bonfim Lago, Edilene Maria Queiroz Araújo, Sérgio Corrêa Marques, Virgínia Paiva Figueiredo Nogueira, Argemiro D’Oliveira Júnior,

Health and Wellbeing Research

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'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 = 1.02-1.53), alcohol use (PR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.22-2.77), acanthosis nigricans (PR = 3.23, 95% CI = 2.65-3.92), burnout syndrome (PR = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.17-1.81), (PR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.12-1.69), working as a nursing technician (PR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.14-1.80), 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.