Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among adult population in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Sathish Rajaa, Sharan Murali, Tanveer Rehman, Jayaprakash Sahoo and Sitanshu Sekhar Kar

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-25

Abstract: Objective: This review was done to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) among adult general population in India. We also wanted to find the gender, setting, and region-wide distribution of MS in India. Methods: We conducted systematic searches in various databases including Medline, ScienceDirect, Cochrane library and Google Scholar from inception until August 2019. We included studies conducted in India reporting the prevalence of MS among adults aged 18 years or more. We used the Newcastle Ottawa scale to assess the quality of included studies. We carried out a meta-analysis with random-effects model and reported pooled prevalence with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). We used the Funnel plot to assess publication biases. Results: In total, we analysed 113 data from 111 studies with 133,926 participants. Majority of the included studies (76 out of 111) had low risk of bias. We found significant heterogeneity among the included studies (p

Date: 2020
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