Prevalencia del Síndrome Metabólico en Personal Administrativo del Área Administrativa de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. Sede Loja 2017-2018

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Abstract:This research was carried out with the objective of determining the prevalence of MS in the administrative staff of the administrative area of ​​the Technical University of Loja. It is an observational descriptive study, quantitative design with a cross-sectional approach, there was a population of 47 people who met the inclusion criteria and they were taken anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, international physical activity questionnaire IPAQ and laboratory tests (basal glucose, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides). The data were tabulated and encoded in EXCEL 2016 and the analysis was performed in the SPSS version 2.4 software. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome according to the ATP III criteria was 14.89% in the total population, of which 10.6% are women and 4.3% are men. On the other hand, according to the IDF criteria, a prevalence of 51.06% was determined, of which 23.4% are men and 27.7% are women. According to the chi-square test, it was shown that there is a significant relationship between blood pressure, triglycerides, glucose, abdominal perimeter and metabolic syndrome.