Autor según el artículo: J Salas Salvado; F Marquez-Sandoval; G Macedo-Ojeda; D Viramontes-Hörner; JD Fernandez Ballart; B Vizmanos

Departamento: Bioquímica i Biotecnologia

Autor/es de la URV: SALAS SALVADÓ, JORGE; F Marquez-Sandoval; G Macedo-Ojeda; D Viramontes-Hörner; JD Fernandez Ballart; B Vizmanos

Palabras clave: Latin America CVD metabolic syndrome

Resumen: OBJECTIVE: To assess the available data on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in Latin-American countries. DESIGN: Systematic review. Searches were carried out in PubMed, ISIWeb, SCielo and Redalyc, using 'metabolic syndrome x' and 'prevalence' as keywords for titles and/or abstracts. Articles selected were cross-sectional studies in Latin-American countries, whose main objective was to study MS and whose study population is described below. MS must be determined using Adult Treatment Panel III criteria. Twelve studies with these criteria were selected, one of which was multi-centric. SETTING: Latin America. SUBJECTS: Apparently healthy subjects aged 18-65 years (including young adult, mature adult and elderly populations) of both genders. RESULTS: The general prevalence (weighted mean) of MS in Latin-American countries was 24·9 (range: 18·8-43·3) %. MS was slightly more frequent in women (25·3 %) than in men (23·2 %), and the age group with the highest prevalence of MS consisted of those over 50 years of age. The most frequent components of MS were low HDL cholesterol levels (62·9 %) and abdominal obesity (45·8 %). Similar outcomes were obtained from the multi-centre study on Latin-American populations analysed. CONCLUSIONS: The present review brings us closer to an understanding of the prevalence of MS in Latin-American countries. However, it is not possible to know the full scope of the problem, partly because data from some countries are not available, and because the methodological differences among the studies published up to the present limit a joint analysis of their results.

Grupo de investigación: Alimentació, Nutrició, Creixement i Salut Mental

Áreas temáticas: Biochemistry and technology Bioquímica y tecnología Bioquímica i biotecnologia

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1368-9800

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Fecha de alta del registro: 2016-06-14

Página final: 1713

Volumen de revista: 14

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/prevalence-of-metabolic-syndrome-in-latin-america-a-systematic-review/EE9A5A3E6AA2640D39968FCCFA3113BE

DOI del artículo: 10.1017/S1368980010003320

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2011

Página inicial: 1702

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article