The Preventive of Diseases for Elderly People – An Analysis of Health Examination Data of Adults

Abstract:

The Adult Preventive Care Service had been starting to practice since 1996 in Taiwan, which hoped to find the dangerous factors for unhealthy early by regular health examination. Previous studies have shown that hypertension, high cholesterol and hyperglycemia are three common diseases and the complications for Cerebro Vascular Disease, heart diseases and diabetes are also ranked 2 to 4 of ten reasons of death in Taiwan. The phenomenon of hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and obese are the metabolic syndromes. This study discussed the related factors of the metabolic syndrome prevalence by analyzing health examination results of people who undergone health examination and the age range of 40 to 64 and understanding demographic characteristics of local. The Mann-Whitney test revealed a significant difference between the metabolic syndrome prevalence in males and females. This prevalence also increases with age and to the peak at the age range of 60 to 64 (21.3%). The percentage indicating both body mass index(BMI)-defined overweight (24≦BMI＜27) and obese (BMI＞27) also increases with age and to the peak at the age range of 60 to 64 (68.0%). The experiment results showed that the prevalence of total cholesterol abnormalities ranked highest among all with its value at 51.4%. People health was influenced by the rate of health examination in the past and the metabolic syndrome prevalence and BMI are increase with age.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 788-792
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.788
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Meng Horng Tsai, Ling Hui Chen, Fuh Gwo Chen, Jr Shian Chen
• Keywords: Adult Preventive Health Examination, Body Mass Index (BMI)

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