A look through Latin America truck drivers’ health, a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Public Health

Research

Ana Carolina Jacinto Alarcão¹  Fernando Castilho Pelloso²  Thais Silva Santos³  Paulo Acácio Egger⁴  Raíssa Bocchi Pedroso⁴  Wagner Sebastião Salvarani⁴  Mariana Teixeira da Silva⁴  Maria Dalva de Barros Carvalho⁴  Patrícia Costa Mincoff Barbanti⁴  Sandra Marisa Pelloso⁴  Silvia Veridiana Zamparoni Victorino⁴  Mariá Romanio Bitencourt⁴  Lander dos Santos⁴  Fernanda Silva Oliveira⁴  Constanza Pujals⁴  Daniel Augusto Message dos Santos⁴  Vlaudimir Dias Marques⁵  Deise Helena Pelloso Borghesan⁶  Isaac Romani⁶ 

[1] Parana Adventist College, Ivatuba, Paraná, Brasil;Physician By the State Foundation for Health Care (FEAS), Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil;Postgraduate Program in Bioscience and Patophysiology, Maringa State University, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil;Postgraduate Program in Health Science, Health Science Center, Maringa State University, Avenida Colombo, 5790, Bloco 126. Jd. Universitário - CEP: 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil;Postgraduate Program in Health Science, Health Science Center, Maringa State University, Avenida Colombo, 5790, Bloco 126. Jd. Universitário - CEP: 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil;Regional University Hospital of Maringa, Maringa State University, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil;UNINGÁ- Ingá University Central, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil;

关键词: Truck drivers;    Chronic diseases;    Meta-analysis;    Systematic Review;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-022-14902-2

 received in 2022-08-25, accepted in 2022-12-20,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Heavy truck drivers represent a social group of great importance to any country's economy. Their professional activity requires a high level of dedication. Due to the irregular hours in their work routine and adopted habits, they mostly predispose them to a diversity of health problems. The purpose of this study is to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis aiming to identify the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in Latin American Truck Drivers. We searched the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and LILACS databases, for scientific publications articles, as reported by The PRISMA Statement. From 1,382, 7 studies were included according to the established criteria. The hypertension prevalence found was 34.2%, diabetes was of 9.2% and the highest prevalence found was for overweight and obesity (56%). Meta-analysis presented that drivers have a higher prevalence of overweight or obesity when compared to eutrophic individuals and that drivers with diabetes and hyperglycemia have a lower prevalence. Due to their work activity, their access to the health system is compromised limiting any type of monitoring of their health. This study showed that there is, in Latin America, an investment and assistance gap, both in the health sector and in the research section, for this professional category, which is so important to the economy of these countries. These data should help to identify the difficulties faced by this professional in health assistance, road safety, public safety, leisure and social life. This research also highlighted that they are young and already have the first sign of non-transmissible chronic diseases, which is overweight and obesity.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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