박미경1,박정숙2

계명대학교 동산의료원 건강증진센터1, 계명대학교 간호대학2

Background: The westernization of lifestyle, the prevalence of obesity, and the aging population are rapidly rising in Korea, leading to the anticipation of an increased death rate from vascular disease. In light of the metabolic syndrome and its effects on vascular disease, this study looked at the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its related hematologic tests.

Methods: This study examined a total of 65,533 test results of patients seen at one hospital-based physical examination and health promotion center between 1997 and 2007. The AHA/NHLBI (2005) criterion for the metabolic syndrome was used in calculating the prevalence rate. The hematologic tests related to the metabolic syndrome were measured. The ‘metabolic syndrome’ results and the ‘no metabolic syndrome’ results were compared with the multiple logistic regression analysis.

Results: By sex, metabolic syndrome was found in 21.0% of males, 15.8% of females, and 18.8% of the total number of patients analyzed. By age, the prevalencerate was 2.72 times greater in the 30s, 4.08 times greater in the 40s, 6.46 times greater in the 50s, 7.15 times greater in the 60s, and 5.53 times greater in the 70s or older when the prevalence rate of the 20s was set to 1 (p=<0.001). The hematologic tests that showed significant differences between patients of the metabolic syndrome and others, were total cholesterol, HbA1c, WBC, RBC, ALT, GGT, creatinine, uric acid, Na, and free T4 in both sexes.AST showed significant differences only in men while ALP and CRP showed a significant difference just in women

Conclusions: Most of the hematologic tests measured in this study showed significant differences between those who had the metabolic syndrome and those who did not. It would be useful to study the relationships between the metabolic syndrome and each of its components.


(Korean J Health Promot Dis Prev 2009;9(3):213-221)


Key words: metabolic syndrome, hematologic tests, health screen