Metabolic syndrome in children

In recent years, the problem of metabolic syndrome (MS), a symptom complex that allows combining various metabolic disorders and diseases associated with obesity, with unified pathogenetic mechanisms, has attracted the close attention of specialists in various fields of medicine.MS is closely associated with the development of type 2 diabetes and is a risk factor for cardiovascular complications, which occupy a leading position among the causes of disability and premature death. There is an opinion that its formation begins in childhood and for a long time has an erased, low-symptom course, manifesting in adults.