Research Article
Prevalence and Anthropometric Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Taiwanese Adolescents
Table 3
Prevalence of the components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among young adolescents with different anthropometric status in Taiwan.
| | Total | BMI | Waist Circumference | | 10–90th | ≧90th | 10–90th | ≧90th | | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| | Boys | () | () | () | () | () |
| | Components of the MetS1 | | | | | | | 0 | 453 (59.3) | 394 (64.6) | 0 (0.0) | 411 (65.6) | 0 (0.0) | | 1 | 188 (24.6) | 154 (25.3) | 24 (29.3) | 150 (24.0) | 24 (29.6) | | 2 | 86 (11.3) | 49 (8.0) | 34 (41.4) | 55 (8.8) | 30 (37.1) | | 3 | 28 (3.6) | 13 (2.1) | 15 (18.3) | 9 (1.4) | 19 (3.4) | | 4 | 6 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (7.3) | 1 (0.2) | 5 (6.2) | | 5 | 3 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (3.7) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (3.7) |
| | Girls | () | () | () | () | () |
| | Components of the MetS1 | | | | | | | 0 | 454 (56.9) | 393 (61.2) | 0 (0.0) | 395 (62.6) | 0 (0.0) | | 1 | 214 (26.8) | 186 (29.0) | 19 (23.5) | 173 (27.4) | 30 (31.9) | | 2 | 99 (12.4) | 56 (8.7) | 39 (48.1) | 56 (8.9) | 40 (42.6) | | 3 | 19 (2.4) | 4 (0.6) | 15 (18.5) | 4 (0.6) | 15 (16.0) | | 4 | 10 (1.2) | 3 (0.5) | 7 (8.7) | 3 (0.5) | 7 (7.4) | | 5 | 2 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.1) |
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1Components of metabolic syndrome include BMI or waist circumference ≧90th percentile, systolic or diastolic blood pressure ≧90th percentile, triglyceride ≧ 90th percentile, HDL-cholesterol ≦ 10th percentile, and fasting glucose ≧90 the percentile.
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