2019 Volume 46 Issue 2 Pages 247-258
Objective Japan Health Promotion Foundation (JHPF) has been conducting the metabolic syndrome prevention screening since fiscal year 2008. The objective of this study is to compare the metabolic syndrome indicators (MSIs) between the 2008 and 2016 cross-sectional screening data.
Subjects Subjects were 18,472 screening participants (14,285 men ages 46±10.97 years and 4,197 women ages 41.14±10.15 years) in fiscal year 2008 and 22,948 screening participants (17,846 men ages 45.98±12.06 years and 5,102 women ages 41.26±10.87 years) in fiscal year 2016 who were participants in the JHPF program sent from the Chamber of Commerce and large companies in major cities.
Methods Comparisons between 2008 and 2016 were made on MSIs including waist measurements, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-cholesterol, serum blood glucose, and HbA1c.
Results Seven MSI averages in men and 6 MSI averages in women were lower in 2016 than in 2008. According to the waist size, 7 MSI averages with waist <85cm and 7 MSIs with waist ≥85cm among men were lower in 2016 than 2008, while 7 MSI averages with waist <90cm and 3 MSIs with waist ≥90cm among women were lower in 2016 than 2008.
Conclusion It is considered that screening of MSIs is effective since most MSIs' averages were significantly decreased from 2008 to 2016.
