Exploring the Prevalence and Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Sub-Saharan African Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 5

Pooled prevalence of metabolic syndrome component based on IDF criteria.

Author (year)	Prevalence of metabolic syndrome component
	Sample	Central obesity	Low-HDL-c	High-TG	Hypertension
Birarra and Gelayee [45] 2018	256	61.7	66.8	67.6	43.0
Biadgo et al. [44] 2018	159	61.0	32.7	62.3	55.4
Osei-Yeboah et al. [41] 2017	162	30.8	47.5	16.7	66.7
Kalk and Joffe [25] 2008	500	75.2	47.6	42.0	67.0
Puepet et al. [28] 2009	634	80.0	70.0	62.9	63.1
Gebremeskel et al. [48] 2019	419	59.7	34.4	45.1	41.3
Pooled prevalence (95% CI)		61.6 (47.9, 75.3)	49.9 (37.3, 62.6)	49.2 (34.1, 64.4)	56.1 (46.7, 65.4'

CI: confidence interval; HDL-c: high density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; IDF: International Diabetes Federation.