A Proposal to Unify the Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Jun 29:13:925976. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.925976. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Xin'nan Zong¹, Pascal Bovet², Bo Xi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Growth and Development, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
² Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: abdominal obesity; adolescents; blood pressure; children; hypertension; metabolic syndrome; obesity; waist circumference.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Body Mass Index
Child
Humans
Metabolic Syndrome* / diagnosis
Waist Circumference