Nutritional Status and Lipid Profile of Office Workers: A Formative Study in Jakarta

Nutritional and health status are important inputs to support work productivity and create a healthy, active, and productive society. Office workers are in a job that is vulnerable to health problems such as obesity, which can hamper worker productivity and directly increase the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCD's). This study aimed to analyze the relationship between nutritional status and the lipid profile of office workers in Jakarta. This research used a cross-sectional design using convenience sampling to select research subjects. The research involved workers from Jakarta aged 20–55 who have worked full time, are not yet menopausal women, are not pregnant or breastfeeding, and are not smoking. Nutritional status was evaluated using the Body Mass Index (BMI) (kg/m²). Plasma lipid profile tests include triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), and LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. Pearson correlation was used to analyze the relationship between nutritional status and the dependent variable lipid profile (TG, TC, HDL-C, and LDL-C). A total of 55 people participated in this research as subjects. The majority of subjects were in the adult category (56.36%), and 5.45% were pre-elderly. Most subjects (61.8%) had normal nutritional status; the remaining 21.8% were overweight, and 16.4% were obese. The results of statistical analysis showed that nutritional status was significantly related to TC levels (p<0.05), but not to TG, HDL-C, or LDL-C, while TC was significantly related to LDL-C and TG was significantly related to HDL-C (p<0.05). The nutritional status was related to TC levels. The authors concluded that maintaining normal TC levels can slow the increase in TG and decrease in HDL, so that the lipid profile is well monitored and can prevent the risk of NCD's in office workers and increase work productivity.