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The uhs is one of the most important risk factors for atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome

Published: 19 Jun 2026 DOI: 10.52338/jocd.2022.1004 101 views

Abstract

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. In an urban population of volun- teers and non-athletes, we looked at the factors that were associated with atherosclerosis and MetS diagnosis. The goal was to identify risk factors for atherosclerosis and MetS in Uberlândia’s urban adult pop- ulation. Methods: A study involving 101 Uberlândia Heart Study volunteers (50.49 percent men; mean age 56.518, range 19-74 years) (UHS). The volunteers were subjected to a physical examination as well as labo- ratory tests. Results: The study sample consisted of 48 women (W) and 52 men (M), with 48.5 percent being women, 40.2 percent having elevat- ed blood pressure [BP (systolic BP 130 mmHg or diastolic BP 85 mmHg), and 39.3 percent being obese,61.8 percent were overweight, 32 percent had hypertriglyceridemia, 33.2 percent had low HDL-C and LDL-C, 40.2 percent had high total cholesterol, 33.2 percent had high non-HDL-C, 22.7 percent had mixed dyslipidemia, 20.2 percent had impaired fasting glucose, and 41.1 percent had metabolic syndrome. Conclusion: The UHS study found that both sexes had a high preva- lence of MetS and risk factors.

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Background

: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. In an urban population of volunteers and non-athletes, we looked at the factors that were associated with atherosclerosis and MetS diagnosis. The goal was to identify risk factors for atherosclerosis and MetS in Uberlândia’s urban adult population. Methods: A study involving 101 Uberlândia Heart Study volunteers (50.49 percent men; mean age 56.518, range 19-74 years) (UHS). The volunteers were subjected to a physical examination as well as laboratory tests. Results: The study sample consisted of 48 women (W) and 52 men (M), with 48.5 percent being women, 40.2 percent having elevated blood pressure [BP (systolic BP 130 mmHg or diastolic BP 85 mmHg), and 39.3 percent being obese,61.8 percent were overweight, 32 percent had hypertriglyceridemia, 33.2 percent had low HDL-C and LDL-C, 40.2 percent had high total cholesterol, 33.2 percent had high non-HDL-C, 22.7 percent had mixed dyslipidemia, 20.2 percent had impaired fasting glucose, and 41.1 percent had metabolic syndrome.

Conclusion

: The UHS study found that both sexes had a high prevalence of MetS and risk factors. Keywords Prevalence, Risk factors, Abdominal obesity, Lipids, Metabolic syndrome Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) arising from arterial sclerosis could be a leading reason behind death and morbidity worldwide, and therefore the underlying pathologic process involves associate unbalanced supermolecule metabolism and a maladaptive reaction entailing a chronic inflammation of the blood vessel wall1. Metabolic syndrome is outlined by a constellation of interconnected physiological, organic chemistry, clinical, and metabolic factors that directly will increase the chance of upset, kind a pair of diabetes, and all-cause mortality [1,2]. particularly, the visceral fat (VF) compartment could also be a unhealthful fat depot.

MetS is said to any comorbidities as well as, impaired fast aldohexose, diabetes, internal secretion resistance, cardiovascular disease, lipids disorders, inflammation and cancer [3,4]. within the NHANES study one- fifth of the adult population of the USA has high cardio metabolic risk, with the prevalence of MetS being calculable at twenty two.9% [2-5]. A gap within the South yankee literature is said to what style of comorbidities associated with MetS is in adults in each sexes. The aim of this study was to verify the range of risk factors for arterial sclerosis and MetS in UHS. Materials and ways Study sample The study was approved by the institutional review boards of the Federal University of Uberlândia.

All subjects provided written consent. A study with one zero one volunteers of every which way selected adult urban population and not jock (50.49% men; mean age fifty six.5±18, vary 19-74 years) drawn from the Uberlândia Heart Study underwent physical assessment, laboratory tests, and additionally failed to create the employment of tobacco and medicines that would influence pressure (BP), supermolecule profile and blood sugar. Risk issue and covariate assessment The Risk factors (RF) and covariates were measured at the primary visit. BMI, outlined as weight (in kilograms) divided by the sq. of height (in meters), was measured at every index examination. MetS was outlined consistent with the National steroid alcohol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel III.

people were classified as having MetS if they’d 3 or additional of the followings from UHS Visit 1: elevated BP (systolic BP ≥130 mmHg or pulsation BP 8≥5 mmHg); elevated TG (≥150 mg/ dL); low HDL-C (men ≥94 cm, women ≥80 cm).Diabetes was outlined as a abstinence plasma aldohexose level ≥126 mg/dL. Impaired abstinence aldohexose was outlined as a abstinence plasma aldohexose level of one hundred to a hundred twenty five mg/dL among those not treated for polygenic disorder. Total cholesterin, HDL-C, TG and aldohexose were determined by protein strategies when long abstinence. Certified technicians used a random-zero pressure gauge to live two force per unit area (BP) readings within the sitting position when five minutes of rest and therefore the mean BP of the two measurements was recorded.

Liver enzymes γ-Glutamyltransferase (GGT-normal values nine to thirty six U/L (W) and 12-64 U/L (M)], amino acid transferase (ALT-normal up to fifty five U /L), and Aspartate transferase (AST-normal up to thirty four U/L) were determined. Statistical analysis The RF was ordinarily distributed. Sex-specific age-adjusted Pearson correlation coefficients were wont to assess straightforward correlations between RF and MetS. Multivariable linear and supply regression was wont to assess the importance of covariate-adjusted cross-sectional relations between continuous and divided RF and MetS. A p-value, 0.05 was thought of to point significance. SPSS Version twenty one code (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) was used. Results The sample population was composed of one hundred and one volunteers.

ities in hypertensive adults. In Korean adolescents, about fifty.1% and 33.1% of adolescents had a minimum of one MetS diagnostic element in line with the various criteria [21]. Maiello et al. screened 1257 biological time girls. MetS was assessed on 834 girls (66.4%). Prevalence of every element was: cardiovascular disease (91.9%), central blubber ninety.9%), low HDL-C (73.3%), high glyceride levels (51.3%), aldohexose levels more than one hundred ten mg/dl or polygenic disorder (48.5%). Huang and colleagues investigate the prevalence of MetS in 259 skilled automobile drivers. The bus drivers and taxi drivers had considerably higher prevalence rates of MS than the nonoperating workers (17.5%/13.1% vs 3.3%). skilled automobile drivers have a better prevalence rate of MS than non- operative workers [23].

in an exceedingly study in Nigerian, general cardiovascular disease was found in seventy eight.45%, abdominal fat was in thirty eight.79% subjects and thirty seven.93% had sort two DM [24]. In older Japanese-Brazilians the MetS prevalence ranged from fifty nine.9% to 65.8% in line with the various definitions. The prevalence of altered MetS parts was as follows: blood pressure eighty two, fast glycaemia sixty five.8%, triglycerides forty three.4%, and HDL-C levels thirty six.9%. The MetS and risk factors for induration of the arteries is also related to a rise within the accumulation of visceral and perirenal fat deposits during this population [26-28]. The high prevalence of MetS and risk factors for induration of the arteries is also related to a rise within the accumulation of visceral and perirenal fat deposits during this population [26-28].

in an exceedingly recent study in South American nation, the prevalence of MetS was sixty six.0% in girls and forty seven.1% in men. The MetS is high among older adults. Abdominal blubber followed by elevated pressure was the metabolic syndrome parts additional prevailing and related to internal secretion resistance among older Ecuadorians. Strengths and Limitations There were obtained reliable information associated with alcohol consumption and diet. Future studies ought to be conducted among populations of various occupations with a additional representative ethnic and gender distribution at the national level, and longitudinal studies ought to even be conducted to ascertain the causative relationship between the metabolic syndrome and its risk factors.

Conclusion

The UHS study reportable a high prevalence of MetS and risk factors in each sexes.

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