Open AccessMetabolic Syndrome among Secondary School Teachers: Exploring the Ignored Dimension of School Health Programme
Author(s) -
Shashikala Narayanappa,
R Manjunath,
Praveen Kulkarni
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/14868.7631
Subject(s) - metabolic syndrome , medicine , logistic regression , obesity , insulin resistance , test (biology) , environmental health , school teachers , demography , categorical variable , disease , family medicine , gerontology , pediatrics , psychology , biology , mathematics , mathematics education , paleontology , sociology , statistics
The rising trend of obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic abnormalities, pro atherogenic factors are important determinants of both the non-communicable diseases and metabolic syndrome. Employees especially school teachers have chronic stress which predisposes them to metabolic syndrome (MS). Thus, increasing the possibility of premature mortality due to CVD and T2DM and escalating the health care cost is affecting their families.