Trends and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults

JAMA

2025-12-11

(Press-News.org) About The Study: As of 2023, approximately one-third of U.S. adults met criteria for metabolic syndrome, with overall prevalence showing no significant change between 2013 and 2023. Even though most individual metabolic syndrome components remained largely stable over the past decade, elevation in triglycerides demonstrated a modest increase.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Shady Abohashem, MD, MPH, email sabohashem@mgh.harvard.edu.

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