Send to Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc. 2015;53 Suppl 1:S36-41. [Overweigth, obesity, metabolic syndrome and waist/height index in health staff]. [Article in Spanish; Abstract available in Spanish from the publisher] del Pilar Cruz-Domínguez M1, González-Márquez F, Ayala-López EA, Vera-Lastra OL, Vargas-Rendón GH, Zárate-Amador A, Jara-Quezada LJ. Author information Abstractin English, Spanish INTRODUCTION: Health staff self-applied strategies are insufficiently to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of this article is to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome and waist/height index on health staff. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study from January to April 2014 in 735 workers of the UMAE Specialties La Raza. A diagnosis of overweight and obesity was established according to WHO criteria and metabolic syndrome NCEP ATP-III. In 250 participants lipid profile and blood chemistry were obtained. Descriptive statistics was applied, chi square, Student t test or Kruskal-Wallis to compare groups. RESULTS: We included 496 women and 239 men (physicians, nurses and other workers). 38% were overweight; 22% had obesity. We found fasting hyperglycemia>126 mg/dl in 5.1%, between 100-126 mg/dl in 17.4%, hypertriglyceridemia in 40.4%; HDL cholesterol