Prevalence of Metabolic X Syndrome in the Interior of Croatia: The Baranja Region

Autor: Sandra Tucak-Zorić, Ines Bilić Čurčić, Hrvoje Mihalj, Ivana Dumančić, Žarko Zelić, Nada Majetić Cetina, Robert Smolić, Martina Volarević, Andrea Tomljenović, Lajos Szirovicza, Zijad Duraković, Ranjan Deka, Antun Tucak, Pavao Rudan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Collegium antropologicum
Volume 32
Issue 2
ISSN: 1848-9486
0350-6134
Popis: Metabolic syndrome (MS), a constellation of metabolic risk factors associated with development of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, has emerged as a public health problem of enormous proportions in developed and developing countries. We have reported previously its prevalence in several isolated island populations in the Eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia. In spite of leading a relatively traditional life style pattern including the practice of a typical Mediterranean diet, the prevalence of MS in these populations is high and comparable to those in developed nations. However, data on prevalence of the syndrome in mainland Croatia is limited. We have, therefore, conducted a study in an outbred population comprising of Croats, Hungarians and Serbs from the Baranja region of mainland Croatia. Although this is an ethnically heterogenous population, the constituent groups exchange mates and therefore, are not reproductively isolated. The life style patterns are also similar. We observed similar prevalence of MS in these groups. We assessed MS following the definitions prescribed in the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP). Overall prevalence is considerably high in this cosmopolitan group, by WHO criteria 26% in males and 38% in females, and by NCEP criteria 84% in males and 71% in females. It is likely that, in addition to genetic risk factors, a host of environmental factors that include dietary habit and relatively urban life style in a modernized society influence the levels of the constituent metabolic traits leading to increase prevalence of MS.
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