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Metabolic Syndrome among South Asians

Author(s) -

Namal Wijesinghe

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of the ceylon college of physicians

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2448-9514

DOI - 10.4038/jccp.v49i2.7850

Subject(s) - ceylon , medicine , audience measurement , medical journal , sri lanka , multidisciplinary approach , family medicine , alternative medicine , affect (linguistics) , medical education , south asia , social science , political science , ethnology , pathology , sociology , computer science , law , history , programming language , linguistics , philosophy

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome among South Asians varies according to region, extent of urbanization, lifestyle patterns, socioeconomic and cultural factors.4 About one-third of the urban population in large cities in India have metabolic syndrome.5,6 One community-based study from eastern India has measured the prevalence of metabolic syndrome as 31.4%, with females having a much higher prevalence (48.2%) than males (16.3%).7 In another study from South India, 31% had abdominal obesity, 46% had hypertriglyceridemia, 66% had low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, 55% had hypertension, and 27% had raised fasting plasma glucose levels.8 The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in rural community is reasonably low compared to the urban community.9

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