Abstract

LOVERA, Mónica Natalia et al. Incidence of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and associated risk factors in a cohort of health workers. Acta bioquím. clín. latinoam. [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.1. ISSN 0325-2957.

Diabetes Mellitus type 2(DM2) is a serious health problem. The aim of this study was to measure Diabetes Mellitus type 2 incidence (DM2) and associ-ated risk factors in a cohort of hospital workers in Posadas city, Misiones, from 2001 to 2012. A total of 391 employees were recruited, 295 female, 96 male without diabetes at the beginning of the period. Personal quiz, anthropometric measures, blood pressure data, and blood sampling for biochemical determinations were performed. Incidence rate was 0.49 (IC: 0.28-0.78)/100 people/year; Cox proportional risk model was chosen, using DM2 appearance as dependent variable. The independent variables were analyzed individually and multivariate. In the individual analysis, age (quantitative, years) Hazard Ratio(HR)=1.06 p:0.030; family records HR=2.00 p:0.159; body mass in-dex-BMI (categories obesity HR=20.77 p:0.004, overweight HR=9.64 p:0.033, normal-category reference); metabolic syndrome HR= 4.14 p:0.003; physical activity HR=0.67 (p:0.402); smoking HR=0.95 p:0.921 and impaired fasting glycemia HR=2.89 p:0.037 were observed. Only BMI remained significantly associated by multiple regression (HR_overweight=8.21 p:0.049, HR_obese=12.51 p:0.025). These fndings will be helpful to support public health authorities to strengthen health programs addressed to this population group.

Keywords : diabetes type 2; incidence rate; risk factors; health workers.

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