TABLE 2. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and risk factors^a, 10–18 years^a (n  =  1228).

Condition	Total Sample		Male			Female		p value
	Frequency, n	% (95% CI) CV	Frequency	% (95% CI) CV		Frequency	% (95% CI) CV
MetS	25	2.1 (0.8–3.3) 0.29b	—	—		—	—	—
Number of risk factors
≥ 2	123	10.8 (7.4–14.2) 0.15	71		6.1 (3.5–8.7) 0.02	52	4.7 (2.8–6.5) 0.19	.3658
≥ 1	420	37.7 (33.8–41.6) 0.05	212		18.1 (15.4–20.8) 0.07	208	19.6 (16.4–22.9) 0.08	.3179
Abdominal obesity	240	21.6 (16.6–26.7) 0.11	130	10.6 (7.3–13.9) 0.15		110	11.0 (7.5–14.5) 0.16b	.7443
Low HDL–C	218	19.1 (16.6–21.8) 0.06	107	8.8 (6.6–11.0) 0.12		111	10.54 (8.4–12.3) 0.09	.2863
Elevated triglycerides	82	7.9 (4.8–11.0) 0.19b	42	4.7 (2.2–7.3) 0.26b		40	3.2 (1.7–7.2) 0.22b
Elevated glucose	22	1.7 (0.7–2.8) 0.30b	—	—		—	—	—

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; CV, coefficient of variation; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

Note: Blank cells (—) indicate that the results cannot be published because of a cell size n < 10 and/or a CV ≥ 0.3306. The prevalence of elevated BP was too low to provide an accurate statistical estimate.

^aThese figures are based on weighted data.

^bThese figures are published with reservation as 0.16 ≤ CV ≥ 0.33.