Importance of Risk factors screening to detect life style diseases in employees of corporate world

Introduction
All work and no play is the mantra of most of the employees working in corporate offices. Long working hours, competition among employees for excellence, inadequate sleep, exposure to laptops & mobiles for long period, sedentary lifestyle, eating junk foods to satisfy hunger while at work triggers a host of life style diseases, leading to deranged physical & mental health. 
Most medical departments of corporate offices are today emphasizing the importance of overall physical & mental wellbeing of its employees. 
At our organization we have PME of our employees working in offices to identify risk factor of life style diseases and our aim is early detection, and thereby prevention of full blown life style diseases in our employees. 

Methods
We have analyzed our data of Periodic Medical Checkup over a period of two years from January’2009 to January’ 2011. Triggers for Life Style Disease were identified life Systolc Blood Pressure, Post Parandial Blood Sugar, BMI, Lipid Profile.

Results
The life style diseases risk factors were analyzed and we found out that approximately 42% had BMI above 25% and 26.41% of the screened employees had 2 or more risk factors as mentioned above. Full result will be presented later

Discussion
We observed that screened employees h ad signs of under lying life style diseases which was indicated by increased risk factor as mentioned above. 
We introduced with the help of our dieticians some dietary changes in our canteen so that low calorie but nutritious food was supplied to our employees. A yoga center, gymnasium was introduced at our office premises. We are conducting regular health awareness programs/screening camps at our offices. Importance of physical activity, brisk walking, and vacation once a year, changes from the day to day routine when stressed, and importance of spending quality time with family is being emphasized upon