Relative monocyte count is associated with metabolic syndrome and other cardiometabolic risk markers in subjects at Secondary Health Care: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND

Relative monocyte count (RMC) is a low-cost widely used biomarker with the potential to predict obesity-related health risks. However, high cardiovascular risk could affect white blood cell dynamics. So, we aimed to investigate the associations between RMC with cardiometabolic risk markers in subjects at secondary prevention.

METHODS

This cross-sectional survey involved 687 subjects at Secondary Health Care. The cardiometabolic risk markers were obesity, metabolic syndrome, high waist circumference, high waist-to-height ratio, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, high glycated hemoglobin, waist-hypertriglyceridemic phenotype 1 and 2, visceral adiposity index, atherogenic index of plasma, lipid accumulation product, and deep-abdominal-adipose-tissue. Pearson's chi-square test, binomial, and multiple Logistic regression were adopted (α = 0.05).

RESULTS

The first tertile of RMC (<5.20 %) was associated with higher odds of metabolic syndrome (OR 1.62; 95 %CI 1.10-2.17 for NCEP-ATPIII criteria and OR 1.48; 95 %CI 1.01-2.33 for IDF), diabetes (OR 1.68; 95 %CI 1.02-2.76), high glycated hemoglobin (OR 2.31; 95 %CI 1.16-4.59), hypertriglyceridemia (OR 1.57; 95 %CI 1.02-2.40), and waist-hypertriglyceridemic phenotype 1 (OR 1.58; 95 %CI 1.04-2.40) and 2 (OR 1.83; 95 %CI 1.17-2.88), compared to the third tertile, regardless of confounders.

CONCLUSION

The lower RMC tertile was associated with higher odds of cardiometabolic disorders in subjects at secondary prevention.