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- Title
Neck circumference as a potential marker of metabolic syndrome among college students.
- Authors
Pereira, Dayse Christina Rodrigues; Araújo, Márcio Flávio Moura de; de Freitas, Roberto Wagner Júnior Freire; Teixeira, Carla Regina de Souza; Zanetti, Maria Lúcia; Damasceno, Marta Maria Coelho
- Abstract
Objective: to relate neck circumference with metabolic syndrome and its criteria among college students. Method: cross-sectional study conducted with 702 college students in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil from September 2010 to June 2011. Socio-demographic data, waist circumference and neck circumference were collected together with blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, triglyceride levels, and FIDL-C. Results: 1.7% of the studied sample presented metabolic syndrome. Of these, 58.3% presented altered neck circumference (p<0.006). As neck circumference decreases, pressure levels improve (p<0.001). Additionally, college students with high fasting blood sugar (p=0.003) and high triglyceride levels (p<0.001) presented higher values of neck circumference. Conclusion: neck circumference is a potential predictive marker in the detection of metabolic syndrome and its components among college students.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; METABOLIC syndrome risk factors; NECK physiology; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD sugar; CHI-squared test; COLLEGE students; HIGH density lipoproteins; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); TRIGLYCERIDES; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; WAIST circumference; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2014, Vol 22, Issue 6, p973
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-1169.3565.2505