TESTOSTERONA Y CORTISOL COMO PREDICTORES DE SÍNDROME METABÓLICO EN CHOFERES DE LA COOPERATIVA DE TAXIS 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE LA CIUDAD DE MANTA

Abstract

The Metabolic Syndrome includes a set of metabolic abnormalities that can lead to the development of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Testosterone and cortisol are studied as a marker of Metabolic Syndrome, because low levels of testosterone have been found in patients with obesity, hypertension, type II diabetes, and high level of cortisol inhibits testosterone, in addition to that, people develop glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia. Which are risk factors for the Metabolic Syndrome to develop. The main objective of the study was to determine testosterone and cortisol as predictors of metabolic syndrome in the drivers of the taxi cooperative November 4 in the city of Manta. The methodology used was cross-sectional, prospective, and bibliographic and the instrument and technique that was used to collect the information, was a survey, with the experimentation in subjects with abdominal perimeter, blood pressure and laboratory tests that included serum values of glucose, testosterone, cortisol, HDL cholesterol. The results of the study indicated serum testosterone values with alteration in three taxi drivers and normal values of cortisol despite a high prevalence of risk factors, so these two hormones were not useful as predictors for metabolic syndrome in the population studied. It recommends the change of eating and physical habits, since the work of the taxi driver predisposes to a sedentary lifestyle