Prevalence of Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents and Adults in Urban and Rural Population around Jaipur.

ABSTRACT

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a multiplex of metabolic risk factors including abdominal obesity, hypertension, atherogenic dyslipidemia and insulin resistance.The study is aimed to find causes and aetiological factors responsible for metabolic syndrome prevailing in and around Jaipur, both in rural and urban areas.Methods: It involves measurement of height, weight, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, triglycerides and HDL levels. Results: In our study, overall prevalent rates of MetS in adolescents is 6.8% and in adults, it is 50.4%. According to present study, TGs, high blood pressure and low HDL were found to be major contributing factors for MetS in adolescents whereas in adults abdominal obesity contributed the most. Conclusion: These findings prove to be important tools to screen out MetS positive subjects because it is one of the leading risk factors of CVD, DM and stroke posing an emerging health problem to old and the new stressed out younger generation.