Table 4. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and the mean levels of fasting serum insulin in 125 Japanese obese girls according to birth weight and waist circumference after being divided into 3 groups.
| Waist circumference (cm) | Birth weight (g) | |||
| 1,845–3,040 | 3,044–3,375 | 3,390–4,000 | Total | |
| 69.0–80.5 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| 15 | 16.4 | 17.8 | 16.4 | |
| 12 | 19 | 11 | 42 | |
| 86.0–85.5 | 3 (20.0%) | 1 (11.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (10.0%) |
| 20.5 | 20.3 | 19.6 | 20.1 | |
| 15 | 9 | 16 | 40 | |
| 86.0–114.5 | 11 (73.3%) | 1 (7.7%) | 2 (13.3%) | 14 (32.6%) |
| 32.8 | 23.7 | 21.5 | 26.1 | |
| 15 | 13 | 15 | 43 | |
| Total | 14 (33.3%) | 2 (4.9%) | 2 (4.8%) | 18 (14.4%) |
| 23.3 | 19.6 | 19.8 | 20.9 | |
| 42 | 41 | 42 | 125 | |
Upper stand: number with metabolic syndrome (%). Middle stand: the mean level of fasting serum insulin (µU/ml). Lower stand: total number in each group.