Occupation and metabolic syndrome: is there correlation? A cross sectional study in different work activity occupations of German firefighters and office workers

Table 6 Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in published studies of firefighters and office workers

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome
Firefighters				Office workers
Study	Prevalence (%)	Country	Criteria	Study	Prevalence (%)	Country	Criteria
Own results	14.4	Germany	IDF	Own results	32.6	Germany	IDF
Title et al. [58]	19	Canada	Modified NCEP/ATP III	Lohsoonthorn et al. [40]	25.8	Thailand	Modified NCEP/ATP III
Carey et al. [37]	46.7	USA	National Institutes of Health Criteria 4	Konradi et al. [20]	34.6	Russia	IDF
Donovan et al. [35]	15	USA	ModifiedNCEP/ATP III	Suh et al. [59]	7.4	Korea	Modified NCEP/ATP III
Baur et al. [36]	28.3	USA	Modified criteria of joint scientific statements [25]	Matsuura et al. [60]	16	Japan	Japanese criteria [61]

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