Determining ethnic-, gender-, and age-specific waist circumference cut-off points to predict metabolic syndrome: the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) study

Obesity Indices to Use for Identifying Metabolic Syndrome among Rural Adults in South Africa

“…The average of three blood pressure (SBP and DBP) readings were calculated. A blood pressure of 120/80 mmHg was considered normal and that of ≥130/85 mmHg was classified as hypertension [ 1 ]. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is the average of SBP and DBP influenced by cardiac output and systematic vascular resistance throughout one cardiac cycle [ 28 ].…”

“…Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a global health problem characterised by a cluster of metabolic conditions and is known to aggravate the likelihood of cardiovascular diseases (CDVs) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) [ 1 , 2 ]. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) [ 3 ], each year, MetS accounts for 1.9 million deaths in low- and middle-income countries.…”

“…Discrepancies in the definition of MetS has been reported previously and is thought to arise from obesity indices which are considered a major risk factor [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Most definitions of MetS use Waist circumference (WC) as obesity index which is thought to differs by gender, ethnicity, region, population and age [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. The joint interim statement consider gender and population in its criteria to diagnose MetS and is based on WC ≥ 94 cm for males and ≥ 80 cm for females together with other two risk factors of MetS such as hypertension, dyslipidaemia and DM2 [ 2 ].…”

Age Cut-off Point for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in Northern Adult Iranians: A New Approach in Prevention

“…The MetS rate differs with age and gender change (Grundy , 2004;Alberti , 2009). The different cut-off point of WC for MetS was seen in different ethnic groups in African especially in men (Hoebel , 2013). In addition, the prevalence of MetS and some other related factors were reported to vary in some studies among different ethnic groups (Veghari , 2010b;Markova , 2014;Fedacko 2014;Veghari & Mansurian, 2007;Ford , 2002;Guo , 2014).…”