ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components among the elderly at Tanggu community in Tainjin. Methods The elderly inhabitants were drawn out randomly from one community at Tanggu in Tianjin to examine the MS-related indexes. There were 623 samples with complete data aged (67.4±6.0) years, including 261 males with mean age of (68.3±6.1) years and 362 females with mean age of (66.9±6.0) years. Diagnosis of MS was done by criteria of Chinese Medical Association Diabetes Branch in 2004. Results The standardized prevalence of MS for the elderly in the community was 18.5% with the highest risk group aged 60～69 years. Standardized prevalences of hypertension, high triglycerides, high blood sugar, overweight, obesity, low HDL-C were 49.5%, 38.8%, 25.3%, 42.0%, 4.2%, 3.0% in the elderly. Conclusions The prevalence of MS in the elderly is lower in Tanggu community in Tianjin than in Shanghai, Foshan in Guangdong, Qingdao in Shandong and Beijing city. The condition in female is more severe than in male, the highest prevalence occurs in hypertension, and overweight, high triglycerides and high blood sugar follow it, but few of them are obesity, low HDL-C is fewer too.