Table 1.

Proposals for rating the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents

	Cook et al.	De Ferranti et al.	Weiss et al.
3 or more among the 5 criteria below
Adiposity: abdominal circumference (AC) or BMI	AC ≥ p 90th	AC > p 75th	BMI z score ≥ 2,0
Fasting glycemia or at OGTT (mg/dL)	Fasting gly ≥ 110	Fasting gly ≥ 110	Glycemia at OGTT of 140-200
Blood pressure	≥ p 90th	> p 90th	> p 95th
HDL Cholesterol (mg/dL)	≤ 40	< 50 (girls) e < 45 (boys)	< p 5th
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	≥ 110	≥ 100	> p 95th