The metabolic syndrome(MS)in adolescents and children can cause serious consequences that lead researchers to pay efforts to study in such area.Presently,MS definition is still not standardized.Different versions of M...The metabolic syndrome(MS)in adolescents and children can cause serious consequences that lead researchers to pay efforts to study in such area.Presently,MS definition is still not standardized.Different versions of MS definition have been used by numerous studies,which may be a problem to identify MS and then to predict and prevent clinical diseases.The pediatric literature shows that insulin resistance and obesity might be the key underlying pathophysiology of MS to cause many related diseases.High prevalence of MS is in overweight and obese children and adolescents.This article focuses on such above issues and also effects of MS on two main disease outcomes:cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.展开更多
文摘The metabolic syndrome(MS)in adolescents and children can cause serious consequences that lead researchers to pay efforts to study in such area.Presently,MS definition is still not standardized.Different versions of MS definition have been used by numerous studies,which may be a problem to identify MS and then to predict and prevent clinical diseases.The pediatric literature shows that insulin resistance and obesity might be the key underlying pathophysiology of MS to cause many related diseases.High prevalence of MS is in overweight and obese children and adolescents.This article focuses on such above issues and also effects of MS on two main disease outcomes:cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
