Abdominal obesity and other components of metabolic syndrome among the young population of Novosibirsk

Objective. To study the prevalence of abdominal obesity (AO) and metabolic syndrome (MS) components among young adults in the city of Novosibirsk.Material and Methods. A cross-sectional study of the young population of Novosibirsk was performed in 2013-2017. A representative sample comprised 1,512 people aged 25-44 years. The study included 1,449 people (45.6% men) based on the presence of all criteria required to perform the analysis according to the goal. The following age groups were assigned for the study: group 1 comprised 25-34-year-old individuals; group 2 included 35-44-year-olds. According to the recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of MS (RSC, 2009), AO was detected when participants had a waist circumference greater than 94/80 cm in men/women; hypertriglyceridemia (hyper-TG) when triglycerides (TG) were ≥ 1.7 mmol/L; low-density lipoprotein (LDL) hypercholesterolemia (hyper-LDL) when LDL cholesterol was > 3.0 mmol/L; highdensity lipoprotein (LDL) hypocholesterolemia (hypo-HDL) when HDL cholesterol was