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ARPA GAMEZ, Ángel; GONZALEZ SOTOLONGO, Odalys  y  VEGA FERNANDEZ, Cosette. Habits and lifestyles associated with the metabolic syndrome. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2010, vol.39, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the possible relation between habits and lifestyles and the metabolic syndrome and at the same time, to know the behavior of each variable that is the syndrome with relation to the lifestyle. METHODS: An analytical and observational research was designed to study a group of 123 officers whose variables of metabolic syndrome we took according to the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel II and the Breslow's index to assess the habits and lifestyles. Authors related the lifestyle and the metabolic syndrome and to each of their diagnostic criteria. RESULTS: The group of subjects presenting metabolic syndrome showed a Breslow's average index of 1.87 (SD): 0.65 very low compared with those without this syndrome (4.06; SD: 1.07) with a significant difference. All variables of metabolic syndrome were deteriorated insofar as that the Breslow's showed the poor lifestyles. In the subjects with a increasing number diagnostic criteria of metabolic criteria the average marks of the Breslow's index decreased significantly from 4.31 (SD: 1.08) among those without diagnostic criterion to 1,00 among those fulfilling the 5 criteria. CONCLUSIONS: There is an association between the habits and the lifestyles and the presence of metabolic syndrome in general and of each constituent variable.

Palabras clave : Habits and lifestyles; metabolic syndrome.

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