Evaluation on the nutrition and health status among the workers in a steel enterprise of Jiayuguan Region

Objective By gathering medical reports from 41 to 58 year-old middle-aged workers who come from an iron and steel company in Jiayuguan region, to investigate health status of employees, to provide basic data for enterprise employees in order to prevent chronic disease, improve work efficiency, and to protect worker's health. Methods 351 middle-aged workers were randomly investigated with the stratified cluster sampling method,and were screened for examination data along with learning about their life and eating habits. Results Hospital staffs were more susceptible to have liver cyst, fatty liver, higher indirect bilirubin, and higher triglycerides than steel workers, while steel workers were more susceptible to have oral diseases, lower low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), lower serum creatinine(CRE) than hospital staff. More men in hospital staffs suffered from overweight or obesity, hypertension, fatty liver, and higher indirect bilirubin (IBIL), higher triglyceride (TG) than women(all P<0.05);more men in steel staffs were incident to overweight or obesity, high blood pressure, high TG than women(all P<0.05), but women were more likely to have lower CRE than men(χ²=19.775,P<0.001). Conclusions Nutrition education for the employees of this enterprise, suggest balanced diet, strengthen exercise, control body mass index in the range of 18.5-24.0 kg/m², for the prevention of chronic diseases.