Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: A New IDF Definition, A Significance to Recognize
Supawadee Likitmaskul, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.
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The metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents is a syndrome which is valuable to recognize for safety and efficacy of intervention in early life. The definition still needs to be properly identified, recently there has been a new IDF consensus definition which is simple and easy-to-apply. However, future research is needed to identify optimum criteria for definition of the syndrome. Henceforth, public health, medical professionals and societies must recognize not only on the problems associated with obesity and progression to the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents, but also build up the successful intervention program for prevention of these future harmful ...
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