Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome among North Indian Adolescents Using Adult treatment panel III and Pediatric International Diabetic Federation Definitions

Insulin resistance syndrome was first described by Reaven [1] as the concomitant presence of abdominal adiposity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes mellitus and described this syndrome complex as syndrome X. Although researchers coined different terms to this syndrome complex [2,3], the term metabolic syndrome (MS) was coined by Adult Treatment Panel III -National Cholesterol Education Program (ATPIII-NCEP) to use a common definition in the global context and consider other causal factors related with abdominal fat excess [4].