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. 2019 Jul 30;11(8):1755.
doi: 10.3390/nu11081755.

The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Related Risk Complications among Koreans

Seung-Hoo Lee  1 , Shuting Tao  1 , Hak-Seon Kim  2
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The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Related Risk Complications among Koreans

Seung-Hoo Lee et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

There is an increasing number of metabolic syndrome (MetS) patients worldwide, and there is no exception in South Korea. The risk complications of metabolic syndrome have been investigated by many previous research studies, while no data on any current trends of MetS are available. Therefore, the present study investigates the recent prevalence of MetS and its associated risk complications in Korean adults by using the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). The Survey respondents (n = 4744) were adults over the age of 30, and they had participated in KNHANES 2016, which is a health survey of a national representative sample of non-institutionalized civilian South Koreans. The cross-tabulation analysis was applied to figure out the general characteristics impacting on the prevalence of MetS; furthermore, the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using multivariate logistic regression analysis were presented for the risk complications of MetS. Findings from this study indicated that subjective health status, family structure, age, income level, use of nutrition labelling and gender showed significant connections with the prevalence of MetS. The risk diseases, stroke (OR = 2.174, 95% CI = 1.377-3.433, p < 0.01), myocardial infarction (MI) (OR = 2.667, 95% CI = 1.474-4.824, p < 0.01) and diabetes (OR = 6.533, 95% CI = 4.963, p < 0.001) were explored and verified attributable to the prevalence of MetS. The findings in this study suggest that sociodemographic characteristics-concentrated strategies are vital to prevent the prevalence of MetS in South Korea, and relative risk complications ought to be cautiously dealt with as well.

Keywords: Korean National Health and Nutrition Survey; metabolic syndrome; prevalence; risk complications; tuberculosis.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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