Abstract :
Introduction/Background: Presently, non-communicable diseases play a vital role in the
determination of overall health status of an individual. Metabolic syndrome (MS), as
per WHO criteria, is associated with obesity as a major pre-determinant risk factor and
other co-morbidities, viz., diabetes mellitus (DM) Type 2, which increases the risk of
coronary artery disease (CAD).
Aim/Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze its trend in a working population
w.r.t some important defined variables (demographics, work profile and individual MS
components), to correlate the prevalence over a few years and to justify need for
control measures.
Methodology: The study was conducted on employees of an automobile manufacturing
unit; inclusion criteria-all executives (senior manager and above) who readily
underwent check-up; exclusion criteria-employees unwilling for check-up; data
collection was done through executive health check-up reports; analyzed by a crosssectional study with last 6 years’ data. Total data sample strength was N=700
approximately; 4 sample groups were thus selected from year 2009-10 (n=169), 2011-
12 (n=215), 2013-14 (n=254) and 2015-16 (n=335). Statistical methods used were
correlation regression for study validation and ANOVA with p-value for mean
comparison. Data analysis was done using SPSS v16. Study was pre-approved ethically
and informed consent for the study was received from subjects.
Keyword :
Metabolic syndrome, ANOVA, Correlation, Coefficient of determination, Diabetes mellitus, CAD