Role of Lipid Parameters among Women Police Personnel of Jammu: A Comparative Observational Study among Subjects with Metabolic Syndrome and Without Metabolic Syndrome

Abstract

Background: There are few studies that have explicitly studied the role of lipid parameters in developing MetS. In this present study, we will find out the prevalence of patients with respect to abnormal lipid parameters among study subjects and then a possible association between lipid parameters and metabolic syndrome will be evaluated. Materials and methods: The present study was conducted to find the prevalence of metabolic syndrome as per lipid parameters among female police personnel of J&K Police. It was carried out in Post Graduate Department of Physiology, Government Medical College Jammu from 2019 to 2020. Results: We observe that from a total of 17 subjects with TG ≥150mg/dl, 10 subjects had MetS and out of 84 subjects with TG <150mg/dl, only 10 subjects were found to have MetS. We observe that out of total 20 subjects with MetS, 10 subjects were having triglycerides levels more than 150 mg/dl and 10 were having levels less than 150mg/dl. Clearly, there is a high significant association between MetS and triglycerides (p-value<0.001). We observe that out of 67 subjects with HDL<50, 18 subjects were found to have MetS and out of 34 subjects with HDL ≥50, only 2 had MetS. We observe that 18 subjects out of total 20 with metabolic syndrome had HDL cholesterol levels less than 50 mg/dl. Conclusion: The present study revealed that the prevalence of MetS is higher among patients with low HDL-C and high triglyceride levels. Therefore, primarily evaluation of lipid parameters may help health care providers to identify and recognize patients who are at high risk of developing MetS. Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, Lipid parameters, HDL-C, TG.