Trends in Metabolic Syndrome Among US Youth, From 1999 to 2018

Junting Liu; Jun Ma; Olubunmi Orekoya; Nita Vangeepuram; Junxiu Liu

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.1850

Trends in Metabolic Syndrome Among US Youth, From 1999 to 2018

JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Oct 1;176(10):1043-1045. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.1850.

Authors

Junting Liu¹, Jun Ma², Olubunmi Orekoya³, Nita Vangeepuram^{4

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6}, Junxiu Liu⁶

Affiliations

¹ Child Health Big Data Research Center, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
² Department of Health Policy and Administration, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago.
³ Children and Teen Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Departments of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁵ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁶ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This survey study uses representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine trends in prevalence of metabolic syndrome among US youth aged 12 to 19 years.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Humans
Metabolic Syndrome* / epidemiology
Nutrition Surveys
Obesity
Prevalence
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

P30 DK111022/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States