Analysis of Relation between Life Style, Workload, and Work Stress with Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is a set of risk factor symptoms of cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. Risk factor symptoms are found on Officers of Tanjung Perak Port Class I Health Office, some of them are urban society lifestyle, heterogenous workload and stress based on the working scope, administrative and field work. This research is aimed to analyze the relation between lifestyle, workload, and work stress with metabolic syndrome and its five indicators (blood pressure levels, pre-prandial blood glucose levels, HDL cholesterol levels, abdominal circumference, and triglycerides levels) This research is an observational research with cross sectional research design. The number of research respondents is 39 Government Employees. Lifestyle, workload, and work stress are independent variables. The dependent variables are metabolic syndrome and its five indicators. 13.4% of respondents have metabolic syndrome. Analysis of fisher test found there is a significant relation between frequency of fruit consumption and metabolic syndrome (p=0,047). It is suggested to do a regular medical examination program and provide some variation of fruits menu to be served in meetings or office agendas in order to increase the frequency of fruits consumption.