NEW YORK - as Korea to become more "Westernized" since the 1990s, the number of adults with multiple risk factors for heart disease and diabetes has risen gradually, a new study finds.
The findings, the researchers that call for prevention efforts better to slow down the trend - and, more generally, the importance of a healthy diet and exercise for all in developed countries.
The study, published online by the journal Diabetes Care, looked rates changing the Korea of the metabolic syndrome, a collection of 2 type diabetes risk factors of heart disease and stroke.
People with metabolic syndrome are generally at least three of several risk factors, including abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose levels, low level of "good" HDL cholesterol and triglycerides high (a type of blood fat).
In 1998, the study concluded, 25 per cent of adults 20 years old and up Koreans had metabolic syndrome. In 2007, that figure had risen to just over 31 per cent - close to the speed of 34% seen in the United States at the time.
The increase came in a period of rapid in Korea economic growth and less healthy lifestyle changes that often come with him, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Kwang Kon Koh Gil Medical Center in Incheon.
Koreans eat more food "Westerners", TV more and get less exercise than ten years, the team of Koh says in the report.
And this, they write, the importance of the lifestyle of the risk of metabolic syndrome for everyone.
The findings are based on a study of the periodic Government of Korean adult health 20 years and more. Between 1998 and 2007, the team found Koh, the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome has steadily increased - with abdominal obesity, low HDL and triglycerides high all growing more common.
One positive was that the rate of hypertension tempered. That the researchers write, perhaps because the Korean traditional diet is rich in salt, and with changes in diet of Koreans in recent years, salt consumption has decreased.
The study is not the first to find emerging Western-style health problems in Asian countries, through rapid economic growth.
A recent study in urban India regularly found rates of obesity, hypertension and diabetes in young adults, researchers up followed by seven years.
These researchers put a large part of the responsibility on the lower levels of physical activity and high rates of smoking.
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes as increasing problems highlighted several other recent studies in the South and Southeast Asia. A study of the World Bank, the India and other South Asian Nations, said that the people of the region suffer their first heart attack at age 53, on average, six years earlier than people anywhere elsewhere.
To help combat Korea stage problems, Koh team writes, "changes in mode of life, such as regular physical activity and a healthy diet with low sodium, carbohydrates and lipids, should emphasize.
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