Translations:Metabolic syndrome/31/en

WHO

The World Health Organization (1999) requires the presence of any one of diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose or insulin resistance, AND two of the following:

• Blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg
• Dyslipidemia: triglycerides (TG) ≥ 1.695 mmol/L and HDL cholesterol ≤ 0.9 mmol/L (male), ≤ 1.0 mmol/L (female)
• Central obesity: waist:hip ratio > 0.90 (male); > 0.85 (female), or BMI > 30 kg/m²
• Microalbuminuria: urinary albumin excretion ratio ≥ 20 µg/min or albumin:creatinine ratio ≥ 30 mg/g