Metabolic syndrome as an important health problem among the adult population of Trabzon, Turkey
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The aim of this cross-sectional survey of 4,809 adult Turkish subjects randomly selected from the central province of Trabzon was to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (NCEP ATP III definition). The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 26.9% and increased with age, being the highest in the 60-69 year-old age group, and decreasing again in the ≥70 year-old age group. Hypertension (57.4%) was the commonest component of the metabolic syndrome in the population studied, followed by abdominal obesity (40.9%), low HDL-cholesterol (31.8%), hypertriglyceridaemia (30.7%), and high fasting blood glucose levels (9.2%). In patients diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, hypertension had the highest prevalence (91.9%), followed by abdominal obesity (82.3%), hypertriglyceridaemia (74%), low HDL-cholesterol (68.6%), and high fasting blood glucose levels (28.6%). Given such prevalence, effective public health education and urgent steps are needed in order to address the metabolic syndrome and its correlates, which appears to be an important health problem among the adult population of Trabzon.
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