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Intake of snacks and metabolic syndrome incidence in children and adolescents: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study

Asghari G, Yuzbashian E, Mirmiran P, Hosseinpor-niazi S, Azizi F

• • Introduction
  • Material and Method
  • Result
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Limitation
  • Acknowledgment
• The  Metabolic  Syndrome (in both children and adults)
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Elevated blood pressure
  • Dysregulated glucose homeostasis
  • Abdominal obesity and/or
  • Insulin resistance
• Substantial evidence on the predictive value of childhood MetS and increased risk of:
  • MetS,
  • type 2 diabetes,
  • surrogates of cardiovascular disease such as carotid intima-media thickness in  adulthood
•   The median prevalence of MetS:
  • In whole populations: 3.3% (range 0%-19.2%)
  • In overweight children: 11.9% (range 2.8%-29.3%)
  • In obese children :29.2% (range 10%-66%)
• It has been shown using several longitudinal cohorts that meeting the criteria of the metabolic syndrome in childhood predicts the development of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in adulthood. Similarly, having specific components of the syndrome in childhood predicts the presence of “softer” outcomes such as left ventricular hypertrophy or increased intimal-medial thickness in childhood and adulthood