TY - JOUR T1 - Obesity and the metabolic syndrome JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - ep6 LP - ep6 VL - 90 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 2005/06/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/90/1/ep6.abstract N2 - The features of the metabolic syndrome include type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia. It is associated with an increase in risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In the US third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) of 1988–94, 7% of overweight, and 29% of obese, adolescents had the metabolic syndrome. Since that survey the prevalence and degree of obesity have increased in the United States. Now researchers in New Haven and Cincinnati (Ram Weiss and colleagues. New England Journal of Medicine2004;350:2362–74OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science) have underlined … ER -