Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Military Police Officers of São Paulo City: The Health Promotion in Military Police (HPMP) Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. e61101421142
Author(s):  
Diego Ribeiro de Souza ◽  
Erivan Nobre da Silva ◽  
Leandro Porto dos Santos ◽  
Laiane Cristina dos Santos de Oliveira ◽  
Daliana Toledo Augusto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Waist Circumference ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Hdl Cholesterol ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Work Shift ◽  
N 93 ◽  
The Military

We determined the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among military police officers (MPOs) from the radio patrol program of the Military Police of Sao Paulo State (PMESP). Towards this goal, we analyzed the following characteristics: shift duty (daytime or nighttime patrol), service length in the PMESP, education level attained, weekly alcohol consumption, smoking, and physical activity of 93 MPOs. The MPO groups were created based on work shift [daytime (n=48) or nighttime (n=45)], and years of MPO experience [≤3 years (n=48) or ≥10 years (n=45)]. The overall prevalence of MetS among the 93 MPOs was 43%. There was a higher prevalence of MetS in the group with ≥ten years (53.3%) than that with ≤three years (33.3%); so, 1,6 times higher. The more prevalent MetS indicators (n=93) included waist circumference (76.3%), hypertension (55.9%), reduced plasma HDL-cholesterol levels (44%), hypertriglyceridemia (32.2%), and hyperglycemia (20.4%). Greater waist circumference, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, higher glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels, and MetS itself were associated with the service length (i.e., ≥ten years). The work shift was not associated with any MetS indicator. Those who were overweight or obese were 2.2. times more likely to develop MetS. Hypertriglyceridemia, the best indicator of the MetS, increased the chance of developing MetS by 16 times. Conclusion: MPOs exhibit a high prevalence of MetS, associated with the years of service and age.  

Predictors of self-legitimacy among military police officers in São Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane de Oliveira Cubas ◽  
Frederico Castelo Branco ◽  
André Rodrigues de Oliveira ◽  
Fernanda Novaes Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Least Square ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Variables ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

PurposeThe authors examine predictors of self-legitimacy for police officers belonging to the Military Police force of São Paulo (Brazil). Considering the variables mobilized by the literature on self-legitimacy, the authors seek to identify what explains the self-legitimacy of militarized police officers.Design/methodology/approachA survey was applied to 298 frontline police officers in the city of São Paulo, analyzing indicators separated into two groups: relationship dimension and organizational dimension. An ordinary least square model is used to test the “relationship” and “organizational” variables on police officers' self-legitimacy.FindingsEffectiveness is the strongest predictor for self-legitimacy. Organizational justice and distributive justice also present important effects, as the perception of citizens' attitudes toward police reinforces the conception of self-legitimacy as a dialogical construct, comprising here the public's expectations of police work as well as the police officers' perceptions that they are respected and considered important by the public.Originality/valueThere are no other studies on self-legitimacy related to Brazilian police officers or exploring these aspects among police officers submitted to a militarized structure. These results contribute to the ongoing debate on the militarization of police activities and their possible effects on police legitimacy.

Analysis of high-order aberrations in the eyes of elite police officers from the military police of São Paulo

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
VitorRuda Silva Aragão ◽  
RenanAkira Miyashiro ◽  
BernardoKaplan Moscovici ◽  
JoãoBaptista S. Malta ◽  
MauroSilveira de Queiroz Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
High Order ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Military Police ◽  
The Military ◽  
High Order Aberrations

Apocalipse 1, 11 in São Paulo: Aesthetic Vertigo or Exploitation?

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
William Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Military Police ◽  
The Military

Performed in an abandoned prison, Apocalipse I, II re-enacts a 1992 massacre at São Paulo's Carandiru prison where 111 prisoners were shot by the military police. But the inclusion of a live sex show and gratuitous violence raises questions. Apocalipse I, II sought to use theatrical coups to politicize its audience. But for Stanton it failed to get beyond its own gleefully explicit transgressions and develop a coherent critical narrative of the state of Brazil that could empower its audience.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE FENOMENOLÓGICA E O PLANEJAMENTO OPERACIONAL DE POLÍCIA

Revista LEVS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Michelão Penasso CELLA E SANTOS
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Operational Planning ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Operation Planning ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Recursos Humanos ◽  
The Military

Resumo: O planejamento operacional de polícia é uma importante ferramenta da administração moderna, sendo introduzido em todos os seus segmentos com o objetivo de otimizar os  recursos humanos e materiais e estabelecer suas linhas de ação. Ciente da relevância do planejamento para o desenvolvimento de suas funções institucionais, a Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo criou o Plano de Policiamento Inteligente (PPI) que desenvolve análises de cenários para avaliação e discussão do plano de ação em Reuniões de Análise Crítica (RAC). Todavia, é uma diretiva que necessita de avanços nas análises e discussões das causas do avanço criminal. Nesse contexto se insere este artigo científico, demonstrando a importância da análise situacional (cenário) e dos fenômenos sociológicos na compreensão do processo delitivo do crime. Com base teórica nas Ciências Sociais e nas Ciências Policiais de Segurança e Ordem Pública, tem-se a dimensão da necessidade de que os comandantes de Organizações Policiais Militares territoriais tenham conhecimento da dinâmica criminal e social da comunidade a que prestam serviços, parametrizando a metodologia a ser empregada desde a fase do planejamento operacional, visando alcançar resultados mais eficientes.Palavras-chave: Criminalidade, Dinâmica Criminal, Prevenção Criminal, Planejamento Operacional, Policiamento Inteligente. Abstract: The police operational planning is an important appliance of the modern administration, that has been introduced in all segments with the objective of optimize all the human resources and materials and establish your actions lines. Aware of the relevance of the planning for the progress of their institutional functions, the military police of São Paulo created the Plan of Intelligent Policing (PIP) that develops analysis of scenarios for evaluation and for the discussion of the action plan on Reunions of Critical Analysis (RCA). However, it is directive that needs advance of the analysis and discussions to the motives of the criminal advancement. On that context inserts itself to this scientific article, showing the importance of the situational analysis (scenery) and of the sociological phenomena in understanding of the criminal process. By the base of theory in Social Sciences and the Police Science of Security and Public Order have a dimension of the necessity of what the Commanders of the Organizations Territorial of the Military Police have the knowledge of the criminal dynamic and social of the community that they do the services, parameterizing the methodology to be worked on since the phase of the Operation Planning, and aiming reach the results more efficient.  Keywords: Criminality, Criminal dynamic, Criminal Prevention, Operational Planning, Intelligent Policing.

scholarly journals Estresse Ocupacional, qualidade do sono e obesidade em Policiais Militares - Revisão narrativa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e36510313485
Author(s):  
Luiz Otavio R. Garcia ◽  
Maria-Raquel G. Silva ◽  
Rudá Moreira França
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
World Population ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
The Military ◽  
Work Events

Stress was considered by the United Nations as the disease of the 20th Century, being present in more than 90% of the world population, including military police officers. This group of professionals has been in the front-line of the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus and is exposed to daily situations of high emotional stress and traumatic work events, which can cause several health problems, namely occupational stress, sleep problems and obesity. This study aims to conduct a narrative review of the influence of psychosocial environment on the development of occupational stress and consequences on the military police officer´s health. Two platforms, namely PubMed and Google Scholar were used to search for relevant scientific publications on the topic; 148 publications from 2010 to 2020 were analyzed, 71 of which were included in this review. It is estimated that 25% to 35% of the global burden of disease may be due to environmental factors. The stress prevalence in military police officers is higher than the average in the civilian population worldwide; due to an alternate work schedule that does not always respect the circadian characteristics of each individual, and with direct influence on sleep quality and obesity incidence. Public health policies should be taken in the short term in order to improve life quality of these professionals.

scholarly journals Heritability of the risk factors characteristic for the metabolic syndrome: a twin study

2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (32) ◽  
pp. 1265-1271 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Jermendy ◽  
Levente Littvay ◽  
Rita Steinbach ◽  
Ádám Jermendy ◽  
Ádám Tárnoki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Waist Circumference ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Fasting Blood Glucose ◽  
Hdl Cholesterol ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Serum Triglycerides ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors

Both genetic and environmental factors play role in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome. The magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on the components of metabolic syndrome may vary in different populations. Aims: The present study was aimed to determine the effects of genetic and environmental factors on risk factors characteristic for the metabolic syndrome. Methods: A total of 101 (63 monozygotic and 38 dizygotic) adult twin pairs (n = 202; mean age: 43.3±15.8 years) were investigated. Medical history was recorded and physical examination was carried out for each subject. Fasting venous blood samples were used for measuring laboratory parameters. The presented estimates include the heritability structural equation (A-C-E) model results. In Model-1, all presented parameters are age- and gender- corrected. In Model-2, parameters were corrected for age, gender, body mass index and waist circumference. Results: Heritability in waist circumference (as well as in other anthropometric parameters such as weight and height) was high (Model-1: 71.0–88.1%). Similarly, genetic factors had the highest proportion of total phenotypic variance in systolic and diastolic blood pressure (Model-2: 57.1% and 57.7%, respectively). Based on the results of Model-2, unique environmental factors dominate alterations in serum triglycerides values (55.9%) while shared environmental factors proved to be substantial in alterations of HDL-cholesterol and fasting blood glucose values (58.1% and 57.1%, respectively). Comparing the results of Model-1 and Model-2, the difference in A-C-E model varied from 0.0% to 17.1%, indicating that only a minor proportion of genetic and environmental influences can be explained by the effects of anthropometric parameters. Conclusions: Among adult Hungarian healthy people, genetic factors have substantial influence on waist circumference and blood pressure values while environmental factors dominate alterations in serum triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol and fasting blood glucose values. The different heritability of individual risk factors challenges the original unifying concept of the metabolic syndrome. The results may be useful for establishing and implementing primary cardiovascular prevention both at individual and population levels. Orv. Hetil., 2011, 152, 1265–1271.

Metabolic dysregulation and late-life depression: a prospective study

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Marijnissen ◽  
N. Vogelzangs ◽  
M. E. Mulder ◽  
R. H. S. van den Brink ◽  
H. C. Comijs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Waist Circumference ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Hdl Cholesterol ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Late Life Depression ◽  
Metabolic Dysregulation ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
Severity Of Depression

BackgroundDepression is associated with the metabolic syndrome (MS). We examined whether metabolic dysregulation predicted the 2-year course of clinical depression.MethodA total of 285 older persons (⩾60 years) suffering from depressive disorder according to DSM-IV-TR criteria was followed up for 2 years. Severity of depression was assessed with the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) at 6-month intervals. Metabolic syndrome was defined according the National Cholesterol Education Programme (NCEP-ATP III). We applied logistic regression and linear mixed models adjusted for age, sex, years of education, smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, somatic co-morbidity, cognitive functioning and drug use (antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs) and severity of depression at baseline.ResultsMS predicted non-remission at 2 years (odds ratioper component = 1.26, 95% confidence interval 1.00–1.58), p = 0.047), which was driven by the waist circumference and HDL cholesterol. MS was not associated with IDS sum score. Subsequent analyses on its subscales, however, identified an association with the somatic symptom subscale score over time (interaction time × somatic subscale, p = 0.005), driven by higher waist circumference and elevated fasting glucose level.ConclusionsMetabolic dysregulation predicts a poor course of late-life depression. This finding supports the concept of ‘metabolic depression’, recently proposed on population-based findings of a protracted course of depressive symptoms in the presence of metabolic dysregulation. Our findings seem to be driven by abdominal obesity (as indicated by the waist circumference) and HDL cholesterol dysregulation.

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