Metabolic Syndrome in Iranian Youths: A Population-Based Study on Junior and High Schools Students in Rural and Urban Areas

Table 1

Prevalence of different components of metabolic syndrome in high school students based on urbanization and intervention, reference area.

High school	Girls			Boys
	Urban	Rural	𝑃 value	Urban	Rural	𝑃 value
Number of participants
Intervention	196	27		202	23
Reference	171	84		166	84
High BP
Intervention	19 (9.8)	0	0.14	32 (15.9)	1 (4.3)	0.21
Reference	50 (29.4)	14 (17.9)	0.055	35 (21.1)	19 (22.9)	0.74
High TG IDF
Intervention	12 (6.2)	5 (18.5)	0.04	26 (13.0)	0	0.08
Reference	7 (4.8)	5 (6.0)	0.76	11 (6.6)	20 (23.8)	<0.001
High TG de Ferranti
Intervention	74 (37.9)	14 (51.9)	0.17	78 (39.0)	3 (13.6)	0.019
Reference	52 (35.9)	39 (46.4)	0.11	57 (34.3)	61 (72.6)	<0.001
Low HDL
Intervention	46 (23.6)	9 (36.0)	0.18	61 (30.5)	6 (30.0)	0.96
Reference	31 (21.4)	16 (19.0)	0.67	49 (29.5)	31 (36.9)	0.24
High FBS
Intervention	10 (5.1)	3 (11.1)	0.198	26 (13.0)	1 (4.5)	0.49
Reference	1 (0.7)	1 (1.2)	1.00	1 (0.6)	0	1.0
High WC de Ferranti
Intervention	40 (20.6)	8 (29.6)	0.29	64 (32.2)	0	0.001
Reference	29 (17.1)	15 (18.3)	0.81	41 (25.0)	3 (3.6)	<0.001
High WC IDF
Intervention	18 (9.3)	4 (14.8)	0.32	33 (16.6)	0	0.03
Reference	10 (5.9)	3 (3.7)	0.55	16 (9.8)	0	0.003
Metabolic syndrome (IDF)
Intervention	7 (3.6)	0 (0)	0.6	20 (10.1)	0 (0)	0.23
Reference	3 (2.1)	1 (1.2)	1.0	4 (2.4)	4 (4.8)	0.45
Metabolic syndrome (de Ferranti)
Intervention	22 (11.3)	3 (11.1)	1.0	38 (19.1)	0 (0)	0.017
Reference	19 (13.0)	8 (9.5)	0.43	14 (8.4)	9 (10.7)	0.56

Data are expressed as number (%).
𝑃 value obtained from Chi-square test or if required.