Open AccessThe Link Between Health Literacy and Three Conditions of Metabolic Syndrome: Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension
Author(s) -
Daniel Tajdar,
Ingmar Schäfer,
Dagmar Lühmann,
Regina Fertmann,
Tim Steinberg,
Hendrik van den Bussche,
Martin Scherer
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.853
H-Index - 43
ISSN - 1178-7007
DOI - 10.2147/dmso.s363823
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , logistic regression , health literacy , obesity , diabetes mellitus , cluster (spacecraft) , population , demography , gerontology , endocrinology , environmental health , health care , sociology , computer science , programming language , economics , economic growth
Health literacy (HL) intervention could be a potential prevention strategy to reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome (MS), but the association between low HL and MS is controversial. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether low HL is associated with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, considering them as one cluster.