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Concordance Between the 2005 International Diabetes Federation Definition for Diagnosing Metabolic Syndrome With the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III and the World Health Organization Definitions

2005; American Diabetes Association; Volume: 28; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2337/diacare.28.10.2588a

ISSN

1935-5548

Autores

Fernando Guerrero‐Romero, Martha Rodr ıacute guez-Morán,

Tópico(s)

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Resumo

Recently, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) consensus (1) proposed a new definition for diagnosing metabolic syndrome. The new IDF definition includes a lower waist circumference than the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) criteria (2) for diagnosing abdominal obesity. Since the most frequently used definitions for metabolic syndrome involve different criteria for diagnosis of obesity, and because differences in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome seem to reproduce differences in the prevalence of adiposity (3), we determined the concordance between the 2005 IDF definition for metabolic syndrome with the ATP III and World Health Organization (WHO) (4) definitions in a …

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