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Concordance among diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome is inconsistent in Spanish adolescents
Author(s) -
FernándezAparicio Ángel,
Perona Javier S.,
SchmidtRioValle Jacqueline,
GonzálezJiménez Emilio
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of clinical investigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1365-2362
pISSN - 0014-2972
DOI - 10.1111/eci.13384
Subject(s) - concordance , medicine , metabolic syndrome , pediatrics , population , demography , cross sectional study , blood pressure , environmental health , obesity , pathology , sociology
Background The metabolic syndrome (MetS), although more frequent in adults, is a growing health problem in adolescent population. There are different criteria for the diagnosis, however without a consensus of which is the best to be used in this population. The heterogeneity of the different diagnostic criteria makes it necessary to carry out more studies that analyse the degree of agreement among these criteria. The present study was aimed to evaluate the agreement between different criteria for diagnosis of MetS in adolescents. Materials and methods A cross‐sectional study was performed on 981 adolescents (13.2 ± 1.2 years) randomly recruited from 18 schools in south‐east Spain. MetS was diagnosed by eight different criteria. Results The criteria proposed by the IDF showed the highest mean values for WC and systolic blood pressure in boys and girls with MetS, and the lowest for glucose and triglycerides in boys. Depending on the diagnostic criteria used, the prevalence of MetS cases in boys ranged from 5.5% to 14.9%, while in girls varied from 3.4% to 32.6%. Both in boys and girls, the criteria proposed by the IDF was the less concordant with the other suggested criteria, while those proposed by Duncan et al, Rodriguez‐Moran et al and Cruz and Goran, were very concordant among each other. However, in girls, concordance values were not as high as those found for boys. Conclusion The variability observed in the agreement among the existing criteria suggests the need to validate uniform criteria for the diagnosis of MetS in adolescents.