Abstract
Objective and Methods To access the effectiveness of health education for clients of the human dry dock, changes of risk factor for lifestyle disease such as body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), serum total cholesterol (TC), and blood sugar (BS) were analyzed among a total of 354 human dry dock participants (299 men and 55 women) who visit our health care center 3 years successively. Results Average of BMI, systolic BP, TC and fasting blood sugar (FBS) were not improved in three years. Clients of normal category after continual improvement (improvement group) were lower than clients of abnormal category after continual deterioration (deteriorated group) in BP, TC, and BS. Deteriorated group in BP, BS and improvement group in BS were overweighted (BMI 25). Clients of decreased BMI were higher in improvement group than deteriorated group in all risk factors for lifestyle disease. Changes of BS were affected by lifestyle and family history, BP by exercise, and TC by menopause. Conclusions The result of this study suggested importance of weight control. In addition, we considered family history of diabetes mellitus and menopause when we provided health education for client with abnormal glucose tolerance and hyperlipidemia.
