دراسة العلاقة بين مشعر كتلة الجسم (BMI) والمتلازمة الاستقلابية عند النساء في الساحل السوري

According to the US National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), we studied the incident of the metabolic syndrome in four (BMI) categories to determine the likelihood of the metabolic syndrome and its individual components in overweight and obese women of the Syrian coast. Then, we examined whether high and normal WC (Waist Circumference) within the same BMI category had the same likelihood of the metabolic syndrome. We found that overweight women had no important risk of having the metabolic syndrome (OR = 1.3), but Odds ratio increased in obese class I to (OR = 10.42) and had a dangerous increase in obese class II (OR = 24.75) (when compared with normal weight). We found with two BMI categories (overweight, obese class I) that those with high WC values were increasingly likely to have more components of the metabolic syndrome compared with those with normal WC values and within the same BMI category.