… Miller et al. reported that in the US study population different ethnicities showed different
prevalence of Mets: Hispanic adolescents (14.6%) > non-Hispanic whites (9.8%) > non-…

… concepts for the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents spanning from
definition to … commonly used definition of the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents, …

… are to avoid having children with a shorter … children focusing on the difficulties of its definition,
the usefulness of its use in clinical practice, and ways to deal with each of the syndrome's …

… In this study, 142,142 children and adolescents from 76 eligible articles were included to
compute the pooled prevalence of MetS and its components in LMCIs. MeTs among overweight …

… , several definitions of metabolic syndrome have been proposed for the pediatric population;
all of them agree on the defining components but differ in … criteria of metabolic syndrome in …

… defined according to the IDF definition by the following criteria6): abdominal obesity (WC ≥
90th percentile, determined by the cutoff points for Chinese children … syndrome. In this study, …

… global metabolic syndrome prevalence of 2·8% in children and 4… ·8 million children and 35·5
million adolescents with metabolic … term between metabolic syndrome definitions and age to …

… Metabolic syndrome (MetS) or X syndrome is defined as a set of … It is noteworthy that the
highest difference of prevalence of MetS has been reported in older age groups. This finding is …

… [57] defined the pediatric metabolic syndrome as the presence of at least three of the
following: abdominal obesity (WC ≥ 90th percentile), low HDL-C level (≤40 mg/dL), …

… have at least one feature of metabolic syndrome [7]. On the … data, the prevalence of metabolic
syndrome in adolescents 12 … result of different criteria used to define metabolic syndrome [8]…