Effectiveness between an Active Lifestyle and Exercising in order to control Clinic and Metabolically the Carrier of the Metabolic Syndrome

Abstract

Introduction: genesis of the Metabolic Syndrome (MS) involves risk factors and chronic diseases such as: Diabetes Mellitus (DM), Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) and obesity. The lifestyle is the cornerstone for its management, in which the Primary Care physician can influence. Objective: to identify effectiveness between physical activity lifestyle and exercising in order to control clinic and metabolic the carrier of MS. Material and methods: quasi-experimental study in 60 beneficiaries of the Family Medicine Unit (FMU) no. 94 of the Mexican Institute of the Social Security (IMSS) aged between 18 and 59 years. Sampling by intention under informed consent, diagnosed MS. There were 15 people in group “A” (physical exercise) and 45 in group “B” (physical activity). Clinical indicators were considered such as: Body Mass Index (BMI), Blood Pressure (BP) and the abdominal circumference; they were taken into account at the beginning of the study, at the second and fourth months and the chemicals: cholesterol, Triglycerides (TG) and peripheral glucose. Descriptive statistics and U tests of Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis were used. Results: the average age of group “A” was 41.56 +- 11.98 years old, and of group “B” 40.73 +- 12.57 years old; in both groups prevailed married as marital status and studies up to primary school. According to the group of study, the clinic parameters showed that bp improved in 43% (A) and 40% (B); the metabolic indicators: cholesterol 66% (A) and tg 42% (B). Bad initial effectiveness 60% (A) and regular 51% (B); at the end in both groups were: regular 80% (A) and 73% (B), p 0.001 for school age and smoking p>0.05. Conclusions: it was corroborated that a physical exercise routine is more effective than physical activity in order to control clinic and metabolic carriers of ms, because it was found a statistically important difference in the results.