Different ways to assess overweight and obesity related to metabolic syndrome

INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a health problem related to diabetes mellitus and atherosclerosis events. Metabolic syndrome includes some of atherosclerosis risk factors and has a fat accumulation as one of its main physiopathologic mechanisms but its assessment changes among criteria used for its diagnosis. OBJECTIVE: Aim of this study was to define the contribution of different variations of overweight/obesity on diagnosis of metabolic syndrome and...