One in Five Overweight / Obese Adolescents in the Community Has Metabolic Syndrome

Methodology Overweight (OW) and obese (OB) adolescents who have never seek medical attention, were identified from schools in a local township and invited to attend a one-day obesity workshop. Anthropometric and waist measurements, together with fasting bloods were taken. Metabolic syndrome was defined using International Diabetes Federation (IDF) 2007 Guidelines i.e presence of abdominal adiposity (WC >90 centile for age and gender) plus two/more clinical features (i.e high fasting plasma glucose (FPG > 5.6mmol/L), hypertension (BP >130/85 mm Hg), elevated triglyceride (TG > 1.7mmol/L) and low HDL-cholesterol (<1.03mmol/L).