Global prevalence of metabolic syndrome among patients with type I diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The presence of metabolic syndrome among diabetes patients is frequent and is associated with an increased incidence of chronic complications and mortality. Despite several studies have been conducted, there is no overall estimation on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among type 1 diabetic patients. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of metabolic syndrome among patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Methods

Medline via PubMed, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Ovid, Google Scholar, ResearchGate and African Journals Online were searched by limiting publication period from January 2005 to October 2020. Data were extracted with a standardized format prepared in Microsoft Excel and exported to Stata 16.0 for analyses. The I² statistic w

SUBMITTER: Belete R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7923483 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature