Zaldívar OJR, Domínguez RD

Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 1008-1014
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ABSTRACT

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 200 obese children and adolescents between 5 and 18 years of age that attended the Endocrinology Department of "Dr. Juan de la Cruz Martínez Maceira" Northern Teaching Children Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2008 to January 2010, in order to determine the occurrence of metabolic syndrome in these patients, for which the variates such as age, sex, presence of metabolic syndrome (according to the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III), and body mass index, low birth weight, mother's reproductive history (intrauterine growth retardation, gestational diabetes and hypertension), family history (obesity, diabetes mellitus and hypertension), as well as biochemical parameters were considered. A low percentage of metabolic syndrome (12.0%), predominantly in the ages from 15 to 18 years, which was closely related to abdominal circumference that was above 95 percentile in 100.0% of patients; the low birth weight prevailing in 70.8% of those affected with the clinical entity; and the severity of the obesity that showed the significant rate of 95.8% in the genesis of this syndrome were observed in the case material.

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