PREVALENCIA Y FACTORES DE RIESGO DE SÍNDROME METABÓLICO EN TRABAJADORS DE LA COMPAÑÍA EBC (ECUADOR BOTTLING COMPANY) DE MANABÍ, DE ENERO A JULIO DE 2007

Abstract

It is well-known that the Metabolic Syndrome is the group of metabolic alterations, constituted by the central obesity, the decrease of the concentrations of the cholesterol together to the lipoproteins of high density (cHDL), the elevation of the triglycerides concentrations, the increment of the arterial pressure and dysfunctions of the hydrocarbonated metabolism. It is a dysfunction in growing epidemic, it influences for bad habits of life. The purpose of the present study seeks to know the prevalence and the factors of risk of the metabolic syndrome in young and economically productive adults. The study type is descriptive, prospective and analytic, you uses a record it prescribes and it interviews for the gathering of data, between the months of March of the 2007 and June of the 2007; valuing levels of glucose in you fast, triglycerides, cHDL and total cholesterol, likewise will be carried out the taking of arterial tension and the index of corporal mass will be obtained (IMC); they were interviewed each worker with regard to family antecedents of illnesses metabolic y/o cardio vascular present before the 50 years in family of first of first degree (parents and siblings). He/she Stops after obtaining the results to apply the intervention personalized in those detected as group of risk. For this we chose the private company Ecuadorian Bottling Company (EBC) Manabí, made up of an universe of 111 workers. The results that we obtained it was a prevalencia of the SM in 49% of the workers, where the group of more representation constituted it those understood among 31 to 35 years (28%), and among the factors of risk but significant they are secondary to the lifestyle of the group in question, we don't check a direct relationship between a family pathologies and the development of personal pathologies. We conclude that the SM is a state of latent illness and it should be seen as a diabetes bias or atherosclerosis preclinical, as well as cardinal factor for other morbid conditions. Of here it removes the importance of a serious change in the population's lifestyle, since at the moment and one of the main problems of health publishes of the XXI century. The intervention is captured in this investigative work with the purpose of continuing qualifying and this way to improve the lifestyle that has direct relationship with this situation of health.