The Risk of Metabolic Syndrome among Dyslipidemic Children and Adolescents

In our outpatient setting of dyslipidemic children, the finding of high TG and low HDL levels helps in discriminating patients with MetS, especially when associated with increased BMI-SDS, insulin resistance and high SBP. Our data highlight the presence of a cluster of conditions that concurrently increased the cardiovascular risk already in childhood and, therefore, that had to be globally investigated.