Summary: | 碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 98 === The Medical Association for Military special operations personnel preventive services is very important. Recently, lifestyle and diet are obviously westernized, caused by the obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease impact the Military special operations personnel’ s health. Additional this is a big burden in the Military care system.
Our research focuses on the metabolic syndrome and related factors in the military special operations personnel. It will provide military health care policy planning and future studies. We did a population-based cross-sectional survey was conducted of 2354 military special operations personnel subjects in 19-60 years in 2009-2010.
The variables for this analysis include: demographics, health condition, biochemical measurements of blood and urine, body measurements. Differences in distribution by age groups and demographics were evaluated using χ2 statistics and logistic regression. Two-sided p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
The average age was 35.39 years and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 7.2% in our study. Age and health indicators (obesity, hypertension, TG,HDL, high blood sugar, LDL, GOT, GPT, and uric acid) were associated with metabolic syndrome (p<0.05). After adjusted for other confounders, population health index include: obesity, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high triglycerides, hypertension and high blood sugar were still associated with metabolic syndrome persons.
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