Metabolic Syndrome: The Waist Circumference
The people most affected by obesity and metabolic syndrome often belong to social groups with lower education and economic, as they tend to eat cheap and high calorie food leads to obesity.
Children and adolescents are not free to suffer metabolic syndrome. Childhood obesity is also increasing in modern society.
Pregnancy is also a special status of women in which, due to weight gain, high blood pressure can occur and develop gestational diabetes. This situation should not be considered circumstantial metabolic syndrome, unless the pregnant woman already suffering before pregnancy or after birth develop if you can not lose the most weight gain during pregnancy.
The track: The waist circumference
The big clue to determine whether or not a person has metabolic syndrome is provided by central obesity, which is measured by waist circumference. The fat that accumulates around the abdomen is more dangerous from the standpoint of cardiovascular risk. This central obesity or apple shape, affects men. By contrast, the pear-shaped obesity, where fat is located primarily on the buttocks and thighs, is more common in women and does not imply both cardiovascular risk.
For this reason, a slogan launched by several scientific societies, although not yet widespread, is that doctors measure the waist circumference of their patients. In men, waist circumference may not exceed 102 cm and in women, 88 cm. People who exceed these measures visceral fat (around the gut) and cardiovascular risk. The waist circumference is also used in children but adapted to age, sex and stage of sexual maturation.
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