Metabolic syndrome starts early, even in seemingly healthy young children

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A new longitudinal study, conducted in Sweden and published in Acta Paediatrica, suggests one or more markers for metabolic syndrome are present in about a quarter of otherwise healthy six-year-olds. MedPage Today: Metabolic syndrome highly prevalent even in very young kids Specifically, MedPage Today reports: In a cohort of 212 Swedish children around 6 years old, 26% possessed at least one of the criteria for metabolic syndrome — including hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, or a large waist circumference — at a level requiring medical intervention.” Of note, only 3% of the children studied had obesity. In the United States, childhood obesity rates are much higher: roughly 14% of 2-5 year-olds and 18% of 6-11 year-olds have obesity. Given that some of the markers for metabolic syndrome — specifically insulin resistance and high triglycerides — were many times more common among children with obesity, the number of young American children showing signs of...
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