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Volume 13 Issue 4 (April) 2024

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Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Urban and Rural areas of Jalandhar City
Garima Uppal, Ray Abhishek Ranjan, Prabhjot Kaur, Rupal Dubey

Background: Metabolic Syndrome is one of the most important risk factor that is increasing the chances of developing chronic diseases in both developed and developing countries. The specific risk factors include central obesity, high blood pressure, impaired fasting glucose, high triglycerides and low leveled HDL. The main components of insulin resistance are sedentary lifestyle or physical inactivity and increased body fat and other causes includes genetic factors, unhealthy diet, tobacco and alcohol use. Objective: The main objective of the study conducted is estimate the prevalence of MS in the population of rural and urban people of Jalandhar city, Punjab and to find out which MS component in rural and urban people affected the most and to find out of male and female which population is more affected. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 120 (N) OPD patients in Tagore Hospital and Heart Care Center from January 2023 – April 2023 on the parameters of hypertension, CVDs, diabetes, lipid profile and BMI against male and female sexes. After that the patients were randomly selected, the prevalence of MS components was studied. Result: The prevalence of diabetes seen more prominently with 68 patients out of 77 female patients that results out with 88.3% of total prevalence. BMI, HDL followed by TG came out with next common prevalence in involved female patients while hypertension seems with the lowest incidence as a metabolic component in same patients whereas in case of male population prevalence of diabetes seen more prominently with 39 patients out of 43 patients that result out with 90.69% of total prevalence. TG, HDL followed by hypertension came out with next common prevalence in involved male patients while BMI seems with the lowest incidence as a metabolic component in same patients. Conclusion: Here, from our present study we concluded that the prevalence of MS seen more common in female patient than male patients visiting Tagore Hospital and Heart Care Centre, Jalandhar, Punjab. The rate of prevalence of diabetes as a component of MS was seen much common in both sex while BMI as secondary most common prevalent in female sex contrast to that, male having TG as second most characterization. We also conclude that obesity is seen more common in female patients than male patient which signifies women in Jalandhar city having more prevalent to metabolic complication than men.

 
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