Prevalence of hyperlipemia and its potential risk factors among traffic police

Objective The prevalence and risk factors of hyperlipemia among traffic police in a city was surveyed, in order to reduce the incidence of hyperlipemia in this occupational population.

Methods The potential risk factors of hyperlipemia of 2 228 traffic police who participated in the physical examination in 2015 were surveyed with questionnaire.The multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to show the risk factors.

Results Totally 89.1% of study population were males and the average age was (41.33±7.51) years.The crude prevalence of hyperlipemia was 39.67% and there was a trend that crude prevalence of hyperlipemia increased with age (P < 0.01);the difference of average serum triglyceride, total cholesterol, or HDL-C in different age groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05).It showed that overweight (OR=2.25, 95% CI:1.85-2.72), obesity (OR=3.12, 95% CI:2.18-4.42), hyperuricemia (OR=1.64, 95% CI:1.36-1.99), and fasting blood glucose more than 7.0 mmol/L (OR=2.80, 95% CI:1.81-4.33) were the risk factors for hyperlipemia, after the effects of age and gender were controlled.

Conclusion The prevalence of hyperlipemia was high among traffic police.We should pay attention to their health status, and strengthen their health education to reduce the incidence of hyperlipemia.