Estimation of cardiometabolic risk in 25.030 Spanish kitchen workers

Introduction: Cardiometabolic diseases have a high prevalence in the world and a large number of factors are involved in their genesis, some of them sociodemographic. The aim of this study was to determine the level of cardiometabolic risk in kitchen workers belonging to the low socioeconomic level.Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study of 25030 Spanish kitchen workers with a mean age slightly over 39 years in whom different cardiometabolic risk scales were determined, such as metabolic syndrome, atherogenic risk, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, insulin resistance, or cardiovascular risk scales such as REGICOR, SCORE, or vascular age. Results: Almost all the cardiometabolic risk scales show high prevalences in this group of workers; these figures take on special importance taking into account that the age of the participants is not very high.Conclusions: There is a moderate to high prevalence of elevated values of the different cardiometabolic risk scales analyzed, especially in men.