Metabolic Syndrome in Bangladeshi Menopausal Women

Objective: to assess the factors of metabolic syndrome (mets) in post menopausal women in bangladesh. methods: menopausal women are at increased risk of metabolic syndrome (mets). this cross-sectional study on 64 willing post menopausal women from an urban and a rural area of bangladesh was done. the socio-epidemiologic factors with anthropometric examination, blood pressure recording and fasting blood analysis for triglyceride (tg), high density lipoprotein (hdl), sugar were studied. results: prevalence of mets was 50.0% (95% ci= 39.9%- 60.1%) among menopausal women, seventy five percent of them were urban. low hdl cholesterol prevailed in almost 96% respondents followed by high tg (51%), obesity (28.0%), high fasting blood sugar (fbs, 27.1%) and hypertension (htn, 16.9%). on logistic regression, age (or=1.6, 95% ci: 1.3-1. 9), male sex (or=2.5, 95% ci: 1.4-4.2) and exercise (or=1.9, 95% ci: 1.2-2.9) produced significantly higher odds of being associated with mets; rural area (or=1.4, 95% ci: 1.0-2.1) and sedentary occupation (or=1.7, 95% ci: 0.9-3.0) were associated just insignificantly. though higher income, better education, good physical movement and knowledge of mets produced protective odds, they were not significant. conclusions: the study suggests that mets is highly prevalent among bangladeshi menopausal women. further studies are needed to identify risk factors and for effective preventive measures to control this metabolic disease.