Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Components in an Urban Mexican Sample: Comparison between Two Classifications
Figure 1
Percent of patients with number of criterions based on IDF y AHA/NHBLI definitions stratified by sex and age. Regardless of the severity of the metabolic syndrome, we found that 43.7% of the individuals fulfilled four criterions when MS was diagnosed by IDF, and 45.3% of the subjects had three components when was used the AHA/NHLBI definition. Similar results were found when we did the analysis stratified by gender. As we expect, in the analysis stratified by age-based MS by IDF and AHA/NHLBI definitions, we found that individuals ≤45 years old fulfilled 3 criterions, whereas four components were present in the older group (43.8%).
