title: Metabolic Syndrome and Its Individual Components among Jordanian Children and Adolescents.
abstract: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MeS) and its individual components in Jordanian children and adolescents aged 7-18 years and determine the factors that are associated with clustering of metabolic abnormalities. MeS was defined using the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition. The prevalence of MeS was estimated from 512 subjects who had complete information on all MeS components. The prevalence of MeS according to IDF criteria was 1.4% in subjects aged between 10 and 15.9 years and 3.6% in subjects aged between 16 and 18 years. When categorized according to body mass index (BMI), the prevalence of the MeS was 15.1% in obese subjects, compared to 0.3% in subjects with normal BMI, and 3.0% in overweight subjects. In conclusion, our results indicate that although the prevalence of MeS is low in Jordanian children and adolescents, a large proportion of them had one or two metabolic abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
authors.forename: Yousef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Khader
authors.forename: Anwar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Batieha
authors.forename: Hashim
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jaddou
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Khateeb
authors.forename: Kamel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ajlouni