WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

*Saja Abbas Ali and Mohammed Hasan Alhamdany

ABSTRACT

Background: diabetic mellitus is an endocrinological and/ or metabolic syndrome with an increasing globalprevalence and incidence. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among the patients withdiabetes using ATP-3 criteria and other different criteria for the assessment of metabolic syndrome. Method: Across-sectional study of 150 diabetics in the outpatient department of Merjan Medical City in Al-Hilla, Babylon.A pre-designed questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic status, disease history, and otherchronic diseases, followed by clinical examination and anthropometric measurements of the patients' height,weight, mid-upper arm circumference, waist circumference, hip circumference, and neck circumference. ThanEach participant gave ten millilitres of venous blood following an overnight fast to assess lipid profiles and fastingplasma glucose. Students were split by metabolic syndrome and employed SPSS's Student's t-test and Chi-squaretest to detect relationships between factors. Results: In the research, 65.33% of individuals had metabolicsyndrome, with a mean age of 54.26 ± 10.86. Significant difference in BMI between metabolic syndrome patients(34.02 ± 6.53) and non-metabolic syndrome patients (27.77 ± 5.11), P-value < 0.001. smoking history wasassociated with metabolic syndrome, although gender and physical activity were not. In metabolic group, chronicillness and diabetes complications were more common. The metabolic group had considerably greateranthropometric parameters. Conclusion: metabolic syndrome was relatively high among diabetic patients, obesityand smoking were predictive factors.

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