Open AccessA study on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components among adults aged 18–49 years in an urban area of West Bengal
Author(s) -
Rajarshi Banerjee,
Aparajita Dasgupta,
Narendra Nath Naskar,
Prabir Kumar Kundu,
Tania Pan,
Jayeeta Burman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_64_19
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , anthropometry , obesity , cross sectional study , environmental health , abdominal obesity , west bengal , diabetes mellitus , descriptive statistics , demography , blood pressure , gerontology , endocrinology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , socioeconomics , sociology
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is recognized as a major epidemic of the 21 st century. People with MetS have twice the likelihood of developing and dying from cardiovascular diseases and more than seven times the risk of developing diabetes.