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Introduction: Health staff self-applied strategies are insufficiently to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of this article is to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome and waist/height index on health staff. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study from January to April 2014 in 735 workers of the UMAE Specialties La Raza. A diagnosis of overweight and obesity was established according to WHO criteria and metabolic syndrome NCEP ATP-III. In 250 participants lipid profile and blood chemistry were obtained. Descriptive statistics was applied, chi square, Student t test or Kruskal-Wallis to compare groups. Results: We included 496 women and 239 men (physicians, nurses and other workers). 38 % were overweight; 22 % had obesity. We found fasting hyperglycemia > 126 mg/dl in 5.1 %, between 100-126 mg/dl in 17.4 %, hypertriglyceridemia in 40.4 %; HDL cholesterol < 40 mg/dl 66 % in men and HDL cholesterol < 50 mg/dl 51.4 % in women. Waist measurement was 93 ± 11 cm in men vs. 88 ± 13 m in women. The waist/ height index in the ideal weight group was 0.048 ± 0.04, for overweight 0.55 ± 0.04 and for obesity 0.65 ± 0.064 (p < 0.01). Metabolic syndrome prevalence was 30.6%, smoking 21.6% and alcohol consumption 35 %. Conclusions: The prevalence of obesity-overweight was 60 % and metabolic syndrome 30 %, making it necessary to take immediate actions to modify the lifestyle of health staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Health staff self-applied strategies are insufficiently to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of this article is to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome and waist/height index on health staff., Methods: This is a cross-sectional study from January to April 2014 in 735 workers of the UMAE Specialties La Raza. A diagnosis of overweight and obesity was established according to WHO criteria and metabolic syndrome NCEP ATP-III. In 250 participants lipid profile and blood chemistry were obtained. Descriptive statistics was applied, chi square, Student t test or Kruskal-Wallis to compare groups., Results: We included 496 women and 239 men (physicians, nurses and other workers). 38% were overweight; 22% had obesity. We found fasting hyperglycemia>126 mg/dl in 5.1%, between 100-126 mg/dl in 17.4%, hypertriglyceridemia in 40.4%; HDL cholesterol<40 mg/dl 66% in men and HDL cholesterol<50 mg/dl 51.4% in women. Waist measurement was 93±11 cm in men vs. 88±13 m in women. The waist/height index in the ideal weight group was 0.048±0.04, for overweight 0.55±0.04 and for obesity 0.65±0.064 (p<0.01). Metabolic syndrome prevalence was 30.6%, smoking 21.6% and alcohol consumption 35%., Conclusions: The prevalence of obesity-overweight was 60% and metabolic syndrome 30%, making it necessary to take immediate actions to modify the lifestyle of health staff.