Objective: To identify the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adult patients treated at the
nutrition clinic of a teaching hospital in the city of Belém-Pará. Methods: Cross-sectional,
observational, quantitative and descriptive study based on data collection from electronic
medical records. Sociodemographic, clinical and anthropometric information on adult patients
of both sexes was recorded. The diagnosis of metabolic syndrome was made according to the
criteria adopted by the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III of
2001. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to assess the normality of the variables. In the descriptive
statistics, the proportion and measures of central tendency were presented and in the analytical
one, the t or Mann-Whitney comparison tests. A significance level of 5% was adopted. Results:
The medical records of 116 patients were analyzed, 79.3% (n=92) were female and 20.7%
(n=24) were male (p<0.001). The mean age was 46.6 years and 88.8% of the population was
sedentary (p<0.001). Diabetes mellitus (29.4%) and arterial hypertension (25.4%) prevailed
significantly (p<0.05). Excess weight occurred in 90.5% of patients (p<0.001). Low HDL cholesterol and elevated LDL-cholesterol and non-HDL-cholesterol were observed in 69.0%,
70.6% and 89.7% of patients, respectively. There was a positive correlation between fasting
glucose and glycated hemoglobin (r=0.81, p<0.05) and between LDL-cholesterol and total
cholesterol (r=0.85, p<0.05). A quarter of the patients (26.2%) had metabolic syndrome.
Conclusion: Most patients did not present MS. A considerable portion had one or two
components of the metabolic syndrome, a condition that, by themselves, already increases the
risk of CVD.
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