Evaluación del síndrome metabólico en adultos mayores de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

The Metabolic Syndrome is one of the most important public health problems of the 21st century, it is associated with the increase of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. There are several criteria to define the metabolic syndrome, among the most relevant and those employed in the study were the International Federation of Diabetes (IDF) and Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III). The objective of this study is to search for components of metabolic syndrome in older adults in the city of Loja, considering different diagnostic criteria. A total of 218 volunteers (77 men and 141 women) were evaluated and 81 (40,5%) were found to have hypertension, 38 (17,4%) type 2 diabetes and 40 (21,3%) obesity. The frequency found for metabolic syndrome according to the ATP-III criterion was 39.90%, however, using the FDI criteria this percentage increases to 54.58%, this difference could be attributed to the fact that the FDI is considered as a diagnostic criterion Values of glucose in aids and waist lower than those used by ATPIII. When evaluated by sex, the metabolic syndrome presented a higher frequency in women