Metabolic syndrome in patients hospitalized in Geriatric Services

Authors

  • Giorgiet Galiano Guerra Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma. Granma.
  • Yamila Lastre Diéguez Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología y Microbiología. Granma.
  • María Esther Corrales García Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma. Granma.
  • Roberto Hernández Álvarez Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma. Granma.
  • Dania Japuz Cabrera Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma. Granma.

Keywords:

metabolic syndrome, Type II diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity, elder people.

Abstract

Introduction: the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is very high around the world and is still vertiginously increasing in the last years. Therefore, it can be considered a pandemic of the current times. It is thought that 25 % of the adult population suffers it.
Objectives: to determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and to identify other clinical forms of the atherosclerotic vascular disease in elder people who entered the Service of Geriatrics  of the Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital “Celia Sanchez Manduley”, of Manzanillo, Granma, in the period from June 2015 to June 2016.
Materials and methods: a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study was carried out with the inclusion of the 120 elder people who the Service of Geriatrics.
Results: 105 individuals of 129 studied were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. The 79-79 age group and male sex were the most affected by endocrinopathy. Other clinical forms of the arteriosclerotic vascular disease identified in the studied elder people were ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and hypertensive heart disease.
Conclusions: there is a high prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among the studied elder people.


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Published

2019-05-28

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Galiano Guerra G, Lastre Diéguez Y, Corrales García ME, Hernández Álvarez R, Japuz Cabrera D. Metabolic syndrome in patients hospitalized in Geriatric Services. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2019 May 28 [cited 2025 Jan. 10];41(3):628-40. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/2911

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 3 (2019)

Section

Research article

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