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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yoshinaga, Masao
• Tanaka, Satoru
• Shimago, Atsushi
• Sameshima, Koji
• Nishi, Junichiro
• Nomura, Yuichi
• Kawano, Yoshifumi
• Hashiguchi, Jun
• Ichiki, Takeo
• Shimizu, Shinichiro

Titel

Metabolic Syndrome in Overweight and Obese Japanese Children

Ist Teil von

• Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2005-07, Vol.13 (7), p.1135-1140

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of and sex differencesrelated to the metabolic syndrome among obese and overweight elementaryschool children. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Subjects were 471 overweight orobese Japanese children. Children meeting at least three of thefollowing five criteria qualified as having the metabolic syndrome:abdominal obesity, elevated blood pressure, low high-densitylipoprotein-cholesterol levels, high triglyceride levels, and highfasting glucose levels. Fasting insulin levels were also examined. RESULTS: Japanese obese children were found to have asignificantly lower prevalence (17.7%) of the metabolic syndrome thanU.S. obese adolescents (28.7%, p = 0.0014).However, Japanese overweight children had a similar incidence(8.7%) of the metabolic syndrome compared with U.S. overweightadolescents (6.8%). Hyperinsulinemia in girls and abdominal obesity inboys are characteristic features of individual metabolic syndromefactors in Japanese children. DISCUSSION: The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is not lowerin preteen Japanese overweight children than in U.S. overweightadolescents, although it is significantly lower in Japanese obesepreteen children than in U.S. obese adolescents. Primary and secondaryinterventions are needed for overweight preteen children in Japan.