Table 5.

Prevalence of individual components according to the most sensitive definition of the metabolic syndrome; by de Ferranti et al.²¹

Component	Cutoff	Overall Prevalence	95% Confidence Interval	Prevalence among Males	Prevalence among Females	P
Blood pressure	>90th percentile	51.5%	47.0%–56.0%	49.4%	53.9%	.265
HDL-c	<1.3 mmol/L	51.1%	47.0%–55.1%	55.0%	46.7%	.081
Waist circumference	>75th percentile	31.4%	27.3%–35.9%	23.8%	40.0%	<.001a
Triglycerides	≥1.1 mmol/L	13.6%	11.4%–16.1%	13.0%	14.2%	.539
Fasting blood glucose	≥6.1 mmol/L	0.6%	0.4%–1.0%	0.4%	0.9%	.103

HDL-c: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

^aStatistically significant differences.