Continuous Metabolic Syndrome Score in Children: How Useful is it?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
[Metabolic syndrome: what is it and how useful is the diagnosis in clinical practice?].
The metabolic syndrome (MS) has been recognized for several decades, although under different names and with different definitions, but in recent years controversy has arisen concerning its definition and significance.1,2 The term does not refer to a specific disease, but to a cluster of metabolic risk factors that tend to occur together: central (or abdominal) obesity, elevated triglycerides, ...
متن کاملConstruct validity of a continuous metabolic syndrome score in children
OBJECTIVE The primary purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of a continuous metabolic syndrome score (cMetS) in children. The secondary purpose was to identify a cutpoint value(s) for an adverse cMetS based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. METHODS 378 children aged 7 to 9 years were assessed for the metabolic syndrome which was determined by age...
متن کاملCharacterization of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Children: Is it Useful?
The pathophysiological relevance of the metabolic syndrome is not currently understood, particularly when attempting to apply the diagnosis to children with varying degrees of adiposity or from ethnically diverse populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of the metabolic syndrome characterization when the associations are explored by sex, race/ethnicity, and weight st...
متن کاملMetabolic efficiency: is it a useful concept?
The idea of metabolic efficiency is widely known in biochemistry , and appears in some form or other in many textbooks (e. Rather less common is any discussion of what the calculation of a metabolic efficiency actually means [though an excellent one may be found in Atkinson (1977)1, presumably because it is regarded as intuitively obvious. The simplest, and most clearly objectionable, kind of e...
متن کاملPost-tropical screening: how useful is it?
1 Eade MN, Cooke WT, Williams JA. liver disease in Crohn's disease. Scand J Gastroenterol 1971;6:199-204. 2 Whitehead R. Pathology of Crohn's disease. In: Kirsner JB, Shorter RG, eds. Inflammatory bowel disease. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lean and Febiger, 1980:296-310. 3 Meyer JH, Sleisenger MH. Granulomatous disease of the colon. In: Sleisenger MH, Fordran JS, eds. Gastointestinal disease. Pathoph...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Indian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0019-5456,0973-7693
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-019-03047-7