Cross-sectional investigation on dietary pattern and metabolic syndrome in high income population of Shenzhen city

Objective To investigate the dietary pattern,eating habits and lifestyle,prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome(MS)in high income population of Shenzhen city.Methods 1 515 managers from enterpr ises in Shenzhen underwenta health examination during the time of September 2004 and August2005,with routine indexdetected.The prevalence of Metabolic syndrome and distribution character istics of high risk factors in each group was investigated.500 examinees with MS or high risk symptoms underwenta retrospecttive survey:including 3 day's 24 hour dietrecall eating habits and lifestyle.Results P revalence of MS was 13.07%.The average intake of energy was 9.63 MJ,about 2% higher Chinese R DA.The ener gy intake of outdoor dietwas 115.5% higher than the RDA.The dietary intakes of carbohydrate,lactochrome and thiamin were significantly lower than the RDA level no matter athome or outdoors.Mostthe investigated had bad behaviors related to MS such as staying up late,binge overeating,erratical meals,etc.Conclusion There is an obviously increase in the prevalence of metabolic syndr ome in the high income population of Shenzhen city.The main influence factor are the illogical dietary pattern and bad eating habits and lifestyle.Greatly improvementin work of health education aim directly atgood dietary pattern and eating habits as well as fine lifestyle will be proved to be significantin the prevention and therapeutics of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular complications in the high income population.