Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes our current understanding of the
metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents. Special emphasis is given towards …

Abstract Introduction The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) describes the clustering of cardio-
metabolic risk factors—including abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, elevated blood …

The concept of metabolic syndrome (MetS) as a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors
(obesity, altered glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, and hypertension) has been around for …

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) using reference
standards obtained in European children and to develop a quantitative MetS score and …

As the prevalence of obesity in adults and youth continues at historically high rates, so does
the occurrence of obesity-related comorbidities. Many chronic diseases that were once …

Background: Metabolic syndrome has been identified as a condition of childhood relatively
recently. The aim in this study was to describe the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in …

With this review, we aim to focus the attention on some established as well as new concepts
for the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents spanning from definition to …

Background The constellation of elevated levels of abdominal adiposity, blood pressure,
glucose, and triglycerides and lowered high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol has been termed …

The metabolic syndrome was recently defined by the Adult Treatment Panel III. Despite a
lack of uniform definition of the syndrome in pediatrics, recent studies have shown that the …

Objective. Our goal was to provide an update on the worldwide prevalence of the metabolic
syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents. Evidence acquisition. The Medline and …