Metabolic syndrome in a sample of the 6- to 16-year-old overweight or obese pediatric population: a comparison of two definitions | Zendy

Fatemeh Saffari | Zendy; Shabnam Jalilolghadr | Zendy; Neda Esmailzadehha | Zendy; Azinfar | Zendy

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Metabolic syndrome in a sample of the 6- to 16-year-old overweight or obese pediatric population: a comparison of two definitions

Author(s) -

Fatemeh Saffari,

Shabnam Jalilolghadr,

Neda Esmailzadehha,

Azinfar

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

therapeutics and clinical risk management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1178-203X

pISSN - 1176-6336

DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s26673

Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , body mass index , percentile , metabolic syndrome , obesity , population , national cholesterol education program , childhood obesity , pediatrics , environmental health , statistics , mathematics

The purpose of this study was to estimate the presence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a group of children and adolescents with a body mass index (BMI) above the 85th percentile for their age and sex in Qazvin Province, Iran; to evaluate the relationship between obesity and metabolic abnormalities; and to compare two proposed definitions of MS.

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