Lower BMI cutoff for assessing the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Thai population

This article investigates the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and the benefits of lowered body mass index (BMI) cutoff point for assessing MS prevalence in a large, nationally representative population sample comprising of 15,365 Thai adults from metropolitan Bangkok who received annual checkup. Prevalence of MS was characterized using the International Diabetes Federation criteria and BMI ≥ 25 kg/m(2) as cutoff revealed that 26.63% of...