Prevalence of Hypertension, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome Between Medical Corps Personnel and Other Corps
Keywords:
hypertension, diabetes, obesity, medical personnel, Royal Thai ArmyAbstract
Background: Nowadays, many countries around the world expect healthcare professionals to maintain a healthy lifestyle in order to be a role model for their communities. However, there is limited information regarding hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and metabolic syndrome among medical corps personnel in the Royal Thai Army.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and metabolic syndrome between Medical corps personnel and Other corps
Methods: The annual health checkup information from Royal Thai Army database was obtained throughout the year in 2020. The extracted data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
Results: A total of 119,334 individual records were collected in 2020. Of 9,832 (8.2%) medical personnel, there were 5,528 (56.2%) females and 4,304 (43.8%) males. The highest prevalence of NCDs among healthcare workers was found in the top three as follows: Hyperlipidemia (89.2%), obesity (38.1%) and metabolic syndrome (21.5%), respectively. In contrast, the top three prevalence of NCDs among non-medical workers was hyperlipidemia (88.4%), obesity (44.3%) and hypertension (27.3%), respectively.
Conclusions: The study found that medical personnel in the Royal Thai Army had a relatively lower prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome except for hyperlipidemia. It was expected that the aforementioned results are due to medical personnel in the Royal Thai Army have higher health literacy.
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