Open AccessAbility Among Adolescents for the Metabolic Syndrome to Predict Elevations in Factors Associated with Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2006
Author(s) -
Mark D. DeBoer,
Matthew J. Gurka
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
metabolic syndrome and related disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1557-8518
pISSN - 1540-4196
DOI - 10.1089/met.2010.0008
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , national health and nutrition examination survey , uric acid , national cholesterol education program , waist , insulin resistance , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , type 2 diabetes , percentile , gastroenterology , insulin , body mass index , population , environmental health , statistics , mathematics
The aim of this study was to compare currently proposed sets of pediatric metabolic syndrome criteria for the ability to predict elevations in "surrogate" factors that are associated with metabolic syndrome and with future cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. These surrogate factors were fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), and uric acid.