| Summary: | 碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 營養學研究所 === 94 === The gout, the modern common civilized disease, according to
report, the prevalence of whole world is 0.16- 1.36%, in Taiwan is 0.16-1.6%. Gout is more common in men between the ages of 40 to 60,however, at present, the tendency of prevalence has been more abundant and more youthful. The epidemiological investigation shows that gout is not common in Taiwan in 1950-1970, but gout and hyperuricemia have been already quite popular in recent years. Although most studies point out that the rate of hyperuricemia patients would process to gout is approximately only 5%, but there are quite a lot of findings show that
there are extremely high etiology relations between hyperuricemia and some risk factors of impaired metabolized cardiovascular diseases, like hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia. The fighter pilots are quite special ethnicity in the society,because they are demanded to work in high altitude, constricted space,
and high G force field for a long time. Especially, when they operate the high performance jet, the continued high G force could influence the blood flow of coronary artery, aggravate the loading of the cardiovascular system, and speed up asymptomatic coronary artery disease to be more
obvious. Whether the impact and changes of the body and the diseases in fighter pilots would differ from the general ethnicity? We studied 72 copies of anonymously questionnaires and associated physical examination reports including age, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (systolic/diastolic pressure), aspartate
aminotransferase (AST, GOT), alanine aminotransferase (ALT, GPT),blood sugar, cholesterol, triglyceride, blood urea nitrogen (BUN),creatinine, uric acid, etc. from 86 fighter pilots in mid-Taiwan for reached the relationship between life style, diet and high-altitude flight pressure of this special ethnicity with the prevalence of hyperuricemia and gout. Statistical analysis shows the results that pilot’s ethnicity and general ethnicity must been similar. There are no absolutely relations between
most physical examination data and the flight times, flight frequency,pressure of flight. But there is conspicuous relation between high-purine diet and alcohol consumption with pilot hyperuricemia. The prevalence of
hyperuricemia in pilot’s ethnicity is about 25% (30% in 2004; 20% in 2005), and shows no obviously difference with the prevalence in generally male ethnicity in Taiwan
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