TY - JOUR AU - ชีวยะพันธ์, เบญจวรรณ PY - 2019/02/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Prevalence and Associated factors of dyslipidemia in personal at Photharam Hospital JF - Hua Hin Medical Journal JA - HuaHin Med. J VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Case report DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hhsk/article/view/175188 SP - 36-45 AB - <p>Background: Dyslipidemia is a risk factor of atherosclerosis which is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease. Photharam Hospital carries out a staff health check-up program every year,and in 2015 and 2016 the rates of incidence of dyslipidemia (cholesteral) in the hospital staffs were 61.50% and 64.60%, respectively. Those rates remain high. The researcher aimed to identified factors associated with dyslipidemia in hospital personnel. Aimed: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of dyslipidemia in personnel of Photharam Hospital. Method: This study was cross-sectional study of 250 samples at Photharam Hospital. Data collected individual data, health behavior data and lipid profile on August-September 2017. Eligible participants were over 35 years old and had checked blood chemistry laboratory for cholesteral, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) in the annual health check-up for year 2017. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, including mean, standard deviation and percentages and inferential statistics using chi-square. Result: Most of the personnel were female with mean age 45.69 years. The majority of the personnel worked in the cluster of health (65.2%). Normal weight and overweight rates were 60.0% and 25.6% and 60.0% had normal waist circumference. The prevalence of dyslipidemia was 75.2% . The factors associated with triglyceride were waist circumference (p-value&lt;0.005), diastolic pressure and identical gene (pvalue&lt; 0.05) Conclusion: The information from this study can be used to plan health prevention and promotion in order to improve hospital staff health.</p> ER -