Assessment of metabolic syndrome in obese children and adolescents

ABSTRACT

The dramatic increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity and its resultant co morbidities are associated with significant increase in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents. To detect the prevalence of metabolic syndrome [MS] among obese children and adolescents attending to Suez Canal University Hospital. The study was done on 84 obese child and adolescent. All of them were subjected to history taking, clinical examination and laboratory investigations for assessment of metabolic syndrome among them. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome was 53.3% and there were statistically significant relationship between its prevalence and the degree of obesity [p<0.05]. Each component of metabolic syndrome gets worse with increasing the degree of obesity. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is high among obese children and adolescents, and it increases with worsening obesity