Diabetes, Obesity and Non-Optimum Blood Pressure Levels in a Group of Employees of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, 2003 (EPIDEMIOLOGY) Diabetes, Obesity and Non-Optimum Blood Pressure Levels in a Group of Employees of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, 2003 (EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Diabetes, Obesity and Non-Optimum Blood Pressure Levels in a Group of Employees of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, 2003 (EPIDEMIOLOGY‪)‬

Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal 2005, June, 24, 2

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Resumen Con el fin de estimar la proporcion de diabetes, obesidad y presion sanguinea no-optima un total de 113 empleados del Recinto de Ciencias Medicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, que participaron en una feria de salud y diabetes, fueron entrevistados y examinados. Las caracteristicas demograficas y la frecuencia auto-informada de diabetes fue obtenida mediante un cuestionario autoadministrado. El personal de enfermeria examino a los participantes con el fin de obtener las siguientes caracteristicas clinicas: el indice de masa corporal, la presion sanguinea y los niveles de glucosa en sangre. Los resultados demostraron una proporcion de diabetes auto-informada, obesidad y niveles de presion sanguinea no-optima de 15.4% (95% CI: 8.5%-25.7%), 80.0% (95% CI: 70.8%-86.9%) y 70.5% (95% CI: 61.1%-78.6%), respectivamente. Aunque la diferencia no fue estadisticamente significativa la proporcion de diabetes fue mayor en las mujeres (15.4%) en comparacion con los hombres (12.0%). Practicamente todos los participantes que informaron tener diabetes estaban sobrepeso u obesos y el 91.7% presentaron niveles de presion sanguinea anormales. Estos resultados senalan la necesidad en esta poblacion adulta de cernimiento y medidas preventivas para la diabetes y otras enfermedades cronicas relacionadas.

GENRE
Health & Well-Being
RELEASED
2005
1 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12
Pages
PUBLISHER
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Medicas
SIZE
246
KB

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