ఆక్యుపేషనల్ మెడిసిన్ & హెల్త్ అఫైర్స్

నైరూప్య

Assessment of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Group of Office Employees

El Mahdy NM

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death representing 30% of all global deaths. The rising trend of morbidity and mortality are due to increased burden of cardiometabolic risk factors. Aim of work: This study was performed to determine the prevalence of various behavioral and biological cardiovascular risk factors in a group of office workers whose sedentary work had influenced their health risk behavior leading to increased burden of obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was performed in a private trade company in Egypt. All current employees aged 30-66 years participated in the study with no exclusion criteria. Detailed self-administered questionnaire was performed including sociodemographic characteristics, smoking habits, physical activity, fruit/ vegetable consumption in addition to clinical examination and analysis of random blood sugar and lipid profile. Results: Smoking, insufficient fruit/vegetable consumption, physical inactivity were reported by 27.9%, 42.6%, 52.9% of the workers respectively. Results showed that 32.4% of employees were hypertensive whereas 30.9% were in the pre-hypertensive state. Overweight and obesity was observed in 76.5% of the group. Participants with atherogenic dyslipidemia represented 86.8% with positive correlation with body mass index. Most of the participants (89.7%) had ≥ 3 cardiovascular risk factors. Conclusion: High prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors among office workers indicate serious lack of awareness about healthy life style and the urgent need to establish health promotion campaigns and public awareness programs locally at workplace and at the national levels.