Endocrine Abstracts

Background and Objectives: Different definitions for the metabolic syndrome (MS) exist.Established criteria for diagnosis includes: raised blood pressure, dysglycemia, dyslipidemia, and obesity, but the used thresholds differed. Individual patients with MS need to be identified to reduce future complications. We aimed to determine the characteristics of subjects identified from healthy population to have MS by NCEP-ATP III, IDF and the consensus definition by IDF and AHA/NHLBI...

Background and objectives: Identification of metabolic syndrome (MS) is important for the strategy to reduce the prevalence of NIDDM. The latest IDF consensus definition emphasizes waist circumference as the central criteria, while the earlier ATP III definition gives equal importance to different risk factors. In absence of local data on definition of central obesity, it might be inappropriate to use the IDF definition. Therefore, it is aimed to investigate the prevalence of ...