Metabolic syndrome a reality among young people

Modern lifestyles and changes in eating habits have turned SMetabolic syndrome (SM) in a public health problem. The prevalence in Mexican population increased 20% in 2010.

The National Cholesterol Education Program and the Adult Treatment Panell III (NCEP / ATPIII) 2001, define the SM as the simultaneous presence of at least 3 of the following signs:

  1. Abdominal obesity
  2. Arterial hypertension
  3. Hyperglycemia (excess of glucose in the blood)
  4. High triglycerides
  5. Low cholesterol concentrations
  6. Dyslipidemia

In recent decades, some of the components of YE , As the overweight, obesity and diabetes mellitus , have increased significantly among children and adolescents, who have even reached atherosclerotic lesions in the coronary arteries and the aorta .

About, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, Secretary of Federal Health of Mexico, commented that the prevalence of excessive weight and obesity in children and adolescents, it has risen considerably in the last 7 years; in the case of adolescents, 31.5% are overweight and obese, which corresponds to almost 5.9 million young people with this problem.

He argued that if no action is taken against childhood obesity Y youth After many decades of recording gains in life expectancy, you may see a decline in life expectancy. This is reiterated if we take into account that the obesity and in general the SM can reduce hope of life up 10 years.

The people who suffer YE have a greater risk of developing diseases such as diabetes (257%), coronary heart disease (64%) and disease vascular brain (61%).


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