Abstract
This study was carried out among Palestinian refugee women in the West Bank to provide data on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its correlates. Data were obtained from a cross-sectional study of 1694 randomly selected refugee women from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) health centers throughout the West Bank during June and July 2010. In this cohort, 30% of the refugee women were overweight, 39% were obese, and 7% were extremely obese. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, the age-adjusted prevalence of MetS was 19.8%. The results of the binary logistic regression analysis indicated that older age and younger marital age were significantly associated with an increased likelihood of MetS in the women. The high prevalence of obesity and MetS mandates the implementation of national policies for its prevention, notably by initiating large-scale community intervention programs for 5.2 million refugees in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, to tackle obesity and increase the age at marriage.
Highlights
The post-2015 development agenda offers an opportunity to ensure a future framework that fully integrates non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are the leading global determinants of death in adults, and cause more deaths than all other factors combined [1]
In line with the UNRWA Health Department strategy to collect systematic data on performance and management indicators, the overall aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components, including obesity in Palestinian female refugees in the West Bank
The missing blood tests are for women who did not return for the blood test
Summary
The post-2015 development agenda offers an opportunity to ensure a future framework that fully integrates non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are the leading global determinants of death in adults, and cause more deaths than all other factors combined [1]. About 80% of deaths attributed to NCDs are believed to occur in emerging low- and middle-income countries [2]. NCDs are the leading causes of death in the Arab world, in middle- and high-income countries, where is chaemic heart disease is the number one cause of death [3]. As in the rest of the world, NCDs have increased among Palestinian refugees, and are an added burden on the health care system. In 2011 the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in Palestinian refugees in the West Bank was 17.3% and
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