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- Title
The Prevalence and the Related Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in Urban and Rural Community.
- Authors
Moon Jeong Kim; Park, Eunok
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components and to examine the related factors in urban and rural community, South Korea. Methods: The data from the 5th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES-V) conducted in 2010 were utilized in this study. The subjects were 5,760 adults 20 years or over. The data were consisted with health survey questionnaire and health examination. χ²-test and logistic regression was used for the analysis SAS 9.3 applying sampling weights. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome based on the latest definition proposed the joint scientific meeting was 23.4% and 29.0% respectively in urban and rural community. Rural community showed higher prevalence of abdominal obesity (29.9% vs 38.5%), elevated blood pressure (31.3% vs 38.5%), elevated blood glucose (24.3% vs 28.4%) than urban community. The related factors were age, marital status, high risk drinking, obesity in urban community and age, marital status high risk drinking, severe physical activity, obesity in rural community. Conclusion: This study showed there was difference in prevalence and the related factors of metabolic syndrome and these findings have important implications to prevent and manage metabolic syndrome in public health field.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; AGE distribution; BLOOD pressure; BLOOD sugar; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; INCOME; MARITAL status; METROPOLITAN areas; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; RURAL conditions; SURVEYS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; RESIDENTIAL patterns; BODY mass index; METABOLIC syndrome; DISEASE prevalence; PHYSICAL activity; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Korean Journal of Adult Nursing, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1225-4886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7475/kjan.2014.26.1.67