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Metabolic Syndrome in Brazilian Adolescents

Author(s) -

Isabel Cristina Britto Guimarães,

Alessandro Moura de Almeida,

Armênio Costa Guimarães

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc07-0568

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , metabolic syndrome , body weight , medline , pediatrics , gerontology , endocrinology , political science , law

Overweight/obesity plays a central role in metabolic syndrome, a major health problem from infancy to adulthood (1). To identify and apply preventive and therapeutic measures at its earliest stages, the prevalence of its components were studied among a sample of high normal–weight, overweight, and obese Brazilian adolescents (2).A total of 314 adolescents aged mean ± SD 13.8 ± 1.97 years were selected from two private and two public schools, of whom 178 (56.7%) were girls and 163 (51.9%) nonwhites. The approval of the university ethics committee and written informed consent were obtained. The students were divided into three BMI-based groups: high normal (≥50th and <85th percentile) …

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