Stability of the factorial structure of metabolic syndrome from childhood to adolescence : a 6-year follow-up study


Autoria(s): Martínez Vizcaino, Vicente; Ortega, Francisco B.; Solera Martínez, Montserrat; Ruiz, Jonatan R.; Labayen Goñi, Idoya; Eensoo, Diva; Harro, Jaanus; Loit, Helle-Mai; Veidebaum, Toomas; Sjöström, Michael
Data(s)

12/04/2012

12/04/2012

21/09/2011

Resumo

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors that is considered a predictor of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and mortality. There is no consistent evidence on whether the MS construct works in the same way in different populations and at different stages in life. Methods: We used confirmatory factor analysis to examine if a single-factor-model including waist circumference, triglycerides/HDL-c, insulin and mean arterial pressure underlies metabolic syndrome from the childhood to adolescence in a 6-years follow-up study in 174 Swedish and 460 Estonian children aged 9 years at baseline. Indeed, we analyze the tracking of a previously validated MS index over this 6-years period. Results: The estimates of goodness-of-fit for the single-factor-model underlying MS were acceptable both in children and adolescents. The construct stability of a new model including the differences from baseline to the end of the follow-up in the components of the proposed model displayed good fit indexes for the change, supporting the hypothesis of a single factor underlying MS component trends. Conclusions: A single-factor-model underlying MS is stable across the puberty in both Estonian and Swedish young people. The MS index tracks acceptably from childhood to adolescence.

Identificador

Cardiovascular Diabetology 10(81) : (2011)

1475-2840

http://hdl.handle.net/10810/7323

10.1186/1475-2840-10-81

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

BioMed Central

Relação

http://www.cardiab.com/content/10/1/81

Direitos

© 2011 Martínez-Vizcaino et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Palavras-Chave #tracking #metabolic syndrome #confirmatory factor analysis
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article