Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk assessed by Framingham’s score: A study with soldiers of the military police of the State of Bahia, Brazil
1 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Diagnostic Support, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia.
2 Full Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Diagnostic Support, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia.
Research Article
Open Access Research Journal of Life Sciences, 2022, 03(01), 026–032.
Article DOI: 10.53022/oarjls.2022.3.1.0023
Publication history:
Received on 01 January 2022; revised on 03 Februay 2022; accepted on 05 Februay 2022
Abstract:
Being a man is considered a risk factor for illness and death from cardiovascular causes; men in general have a lower life expectancy than women and higher mortality from all causes not related to sex in all age groups. The military policemen profession is recognized as full of stress and has high levels of professional victimization. Military Police Corporations are mostly formed by men, and the study of the health of the military policemen can be considered equivalent activity to the study of the health of men. This present study is part of the first author’s doctoral thesis work whose theme was focused on the health of men; it was studied a convenience sample of 452 soldiers, selected by personnel administration by working time criterion, to submit to Corporals Training Course. It was sought to characterize the cardiovascular risk factors and prevalence of metabolic syndrome; cardiovascular risk was also assessed by applying the Framingham’s score; it was found a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the studied group, with emphasis on hypertension (52.55%) and hypertriglyceridemia (46.34%), the metabolic syndrome was diagnosed in 35.03%. Cardiovascular risk by Framingham’s score showed strata of medium and high risk more frequent in individuals with metabolic syndrome than in those without the syndrome. The risk of a cardiovascular event in 10 years in the group with middle and high level of risk was also more frequent among individuals in the older (= or> 45 years) than in the younger group (<45 years). It is concluded that there’s a high prevalence of cardiovascular risks in the studied group, and that there’s a need for continued attention directed to integral health care of men in the military police corps.
Keywords:
Metabolic syndrome; Cardiovascular risk; Framingham’s score; Military police
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