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Meenakshi Bakshi Mehan1, N Srivastava, H Pandya
1Department of Foods and Nutrition, MS University of Baroda, Baroda, Gujarat, India. mmehan@rediffmail.com
Aim:
The profile of non communicable diseases (NCD) risk factors was identified in an industry by pre tested WHO's STEPS questionnaire.
Settings And Design:
A cross-sectional survey of all employment categories of an Industry (2000 employees) was done after randomly selecting subjects (220) from worker (52%) and non worker categories (47.4%), after informed consent.
Materials And Methods:
Information was collected on behavioural risk factors (STEP I), followed by anthropometric and blood pressure measurements by a trained investigator (STEP II). STEP III constituted biochemical assessment of "at risk" subjects (> 3 risk factors).
Statistical Analysis:
Percentage of subjects having NCD risk factors and the odds ratios were calculated.
Results:
Overall risk factor profile of the study subjects revealed universal prevalence of 3 risk factors) with prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and diabetes of 40.5, 38.2 and 19.1% respectively.
Conclusions:
A high prevalence of NCD risk factors in industrial setting was seen; therefore public health approaches are required at workplace settings to curtail the rising epidemic in the productive populations.
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