Figure 1.

The design of this study which selected 94 children from a longitudinal study of two visits. The metabolic disease category was selected such that 51 were not obese at the first visit and became obese 2 years later at the second visit (the disease group). The 43 control subjects (the healthy group), were selected for not having obesity at either visit. Mets count is the sum of 4 binary metabolomic syndrome characteristics (obesity by waist circumference + high blood pressure + high salivary glucose + low salivary cholesterol).