Exercise as Determinant Prevention of High Blood Pressure in Container Crane Operator

Metabolic syndrome (Mets) is a multiple risk factor for coronary heart disease, diabetes, and several organ malfunctions that comes up from insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunctions caused of abnormal adipose deposition. One of the component criteria of metabolic syndrome is elevated blood pressure. Unhealthy lifestyle and sedentary physical activity are considered to have relationship with metabolic syndrome incidents in workers. This study aimed to analyze smoking habit, regular exercise and family's medical history associated with blood pressure using International Diabetic Federation Criteria for Mets in a container crane operator's population. The study was explored in a cross sectional study of 40 container crane operator. Using logistic regression for analyzing, the study found that regular exercise had significant association with blood pressure in worker adjusted with age

Correlation of Knowledge and Metabolic Syndrome in Container Crane Operator

This study aimed to know the correlation between knowledge and incident of metabolic syndrome in container crane operators. The design of the study was observational method and conducted by cross sectional approach in an international container terminal facilities company in Surabaya. The independent variable was knowledge of metabolic syndrome using questionnaires method. The dependent variable was metabolic syndrome using International Diabetes Federation criteria. The number of population was 68 container crane operators and 40 operators as the samples were taken randomly. The results showed that knowledge did not have significant correlation with metabolic syndrome incident. Considering the study’s result, the company needs to find other cause of the metabolic syndrome in their container crane operator population and find effective health promotion in metabolic syndrome prevention. Keywords: Knowledge, Metabolic Syndrome, Crane Operato

A bolder conservation future for Indonesia by prioritising biodiversity, carbon and unique ecosystems in Sulawesi

Abstract As more ambitious protected area (PA) targets for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework are set beyond Aichi Target 11, renew thinking into spatial prioritisation is required to enable PA expansion that maximises environmental values. Our study focuses on the biodiverse and forest-rich Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which has a terrestrial PA network that covers 10% of the island. We used Marxan to investigate trade-offs in the design of an expanded PA network that prioritised different conservation features (biodiversity, forest cover, carbon stock, karst and valuable metal-rich areas) under varying island-wide coverage targets (17%, 30%, and 50%). Our first scenario, which required existing PAs to be selected, required larger areas to meet these coverage targets, in contrast to our second scenario, which allowed for any part of the island to be chosen, irrespective of PA status. The vast Mekongga and Bangkiriang Landscapes, and Gorontalo corridor were consistently identified as a high priority for protection under all scenarios. To meet our conservation targets through expanding current PAs, creating new PAs, and creating corridors that connect existing PAs, we used a spatially explicit three-phase approach. Our findings identified 26,508 km2 of priority areas to be included in the current PA network, potentially assisting Indonesia in meeting its post-2020 GBF target, if our approach is replicated across Indonesia as a national or sub-national analysis. We discuss various land management options through other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) and the costs to deliver this strategy