Abstract
Background: Metabolic risk factors contributing are abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, elevated plasma glucose, pro-thrombotic state and proinflammatory state. Diabetes mellitus (DM), a metabolic disorder caused by impaired insulin secretion, peripheral insulin resistance or both, has become a major public health problem in India. Aims and Objectives: To evaluate the lipid profile in patients with Metabolic Syndrome at a tertiary health care centre Tamilnadu. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in the Department of Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute in Patients diagnosed with Metabolic syndrome were identified and randomly selected in all age groups. 50 metabolic syndrome patients (Cases) and age matched 50 normal patients (Controls) were enrolled into the study with written explained consent. All patients underwent lipid profile testing and fasting and post -prandial sugar level as per standard protocol. Statistical analysis was done with unpaired t-test and chi-square test using SPSS version 19 software. Results and Observations: our study contains that the majority of the patients were in the age group 61-70y – 42%, 50-60y.29%, >70y 13% similarly controls were also 60-70y- 38%, 50-60y -29%, >70y were 8% and hence both the cases and controls were comparable with age (p>0.05).
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