Mehmet Emre Atabek
Necmettin Erbakan University School of Medicine, Turkey
Title: Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
Biography
Biography: Mehmet Emre Atabek
Abstract
Obesity is a risk factor for several metabolic complications. Impaired blood glucose regulation and metabolic syndrome are the most frequent of these complications. The aim was to investigate the impact of utilising different criteria on the prevalence of metabolic.
143 obese children and adolescents aged between 8-17 recruited in the study. Metabolic syndrome was defined using International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) definitions.
In obese patient, 68 (47.6%) were male with a mean age of 12.22± 2.34, 75 (52.4%) were female with a mean age of 12.59±2.45. 112 (78.3%) of all patients were pubertal. Using WHO criteria, 80 (55.9 %) were newly diagnosed metabolic syndrome. Using IDF criteria, metabolic syndrome was present in 65 (45.5%) patient.
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome, and diabetes in children and adolescent is increasing. In our study, we have noted a higher prevalance of metabolic syndrome with WHO criteria.