Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in Central and South American Immigrant Residents of the Washington, DC, Area

Table 2

Percentage of Central and South Americans meeting Metabolic Syndrome criteria by country of .

Number of components	El Salvador	Honduras	Peru	Guatemala	Bolivia
	%	%	%	%	%
	1	24.0	30.8	32.7	21.5	25.0
2	20.1	18.7	13.3	35.5	6.7
3	19.9	19.6	20.4	16.1	20.0
4	8.7	7.5	4.1	6.5	1.7
5	2.8	0.9	0	3.2	0
Prevalence	31	28	24	25	21
Total number of subjects w/MetS	159	30	24	24	13

Prevalence of MetS among the five Hispanic subgroups 28.9%. are percentages.