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Prevalence and Anthropometric Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Taiwanese Adolescents

Table 2

Frequency and clustering of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) components among young adolescents in Taiwan.


	Boys		Girls
	n	(%)	n	(%)	P-value

Frequency of MetS component^@	()		()

Abnormal anthropometric¹	100	13.1	115	14.4	0.502
Abnormal BP²	131	17.2	138	17.3	0.988
Abnormal TG³	79	10.3	85	10.7	0.861
Abnormal HDL⁴	85	11.1	87	10.9	0.964
Abnormal Glu⁵	88	11.5	94	11.8	0.916

Clustering of MetS components^#	()		()

All five components	3	8.1	2	6.5	0.830
Four components	6	16.2	10	32.2	0.207
TG + HDL + BP + OB	4	10.8	5	16.1	0.777
Glu + other three⁶	2	5.4	5	16.1	0.295
Three components	28	75.7	19	61.3	0.309
TG + HDL + BP	2	6.5	2	5.4	0.747
TG + HDL + OB	11	29.7	1	3.2	0.011
TG + BP + OB	7	18.9	3	9.7	0.470
HDL + BP + OB	0	0	7	22.6	0.008
BP + Glu + OB	3	8.1	4	12.9	0.804
Glu + other two⁶	5	13.5	2	6.5	0.586

^@The number and percentage of frequency among all study population which may be overlapping.
¹Abnormal anthropometric is defined as BMI or waist circumference ≧ 90th percentile.
²Abnormal BP is defined as systolic or diastolic blood pressure ≧ 90th percentile.
³Abnormal TG is defined as triglyceride ≧90th percentile.
⁴Abnormal HDL is defined as HDL-cholesterol ≦10th percentile.
⁵Abnormal Glu is defined as fasting glucose ≧ 90 percentile.
⁶Glu + other three is defined as abnormal glucose plus any other three components of metabolic syndrome; Glu + other two is defined as abnormal glucose plus any other two components of the metabolic syndrome.
^#The number and percentage of clustering is only among those subjects that have metabolic syndrome.
* P values when boys compared with girls.