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Purpose: To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome in healthy Turkish children aged 10-14 and to investigate the relationship between the components of metabolic syndrome in this age group. Method: Our study was conducted in the 2004-2005 educational year with high school 6-8.class students who studied in the province of Istanbul. 395 students’ body weight, size, back circle, back circle, systolic-diastolic blood pressure were measured. Of the 353 students who agreed to give blood samples, the hunger blood sugar, basal insulin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high dancite lipoprotein (HDL), low dancite lipoprotein (LDL), very low dancite lipoprotein (VLDL) levels were studied. The modified WHO (World Health Organization) criteria were used for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. In our study, 44.5% of children are girls and 55% are girls. 5 is a man. The average body mass index (BMI) of cases was 20.57 ± 3.48 kg/m2 and 10.4 % (41) were overweight and 12.7 % (50) obese. In 0.85% of the study participants, 6% of obesity cases found metabolic syndrome. The positive relationship between the back circle (p<0.001), the back/knee ratio (p<0.001), the systolic blood pressure (p<0.001), the diastolic blood pressure (p<0.001), the basal insulin level (p<0.001), the homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (p<0.001), triglyceride (p<0.001), total cholesterol (p<0.05), LDL (p<0.001), VLDL (p<0.001) and HDL (p<0.001) was found. The result: According to the results of our study, metabolic syndrome is observed as a major health problem not only in adulthood, but also in childhood. Obese children are much more frequent than non-obese children. Therefore, it is very important for obese children to be diagnosed early and to be examined in terms of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome criteria.

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