[Metabolic syndrome in children]

Currently, the metabolic syndrome (MS)--one of the pressing problems of Pediatrics, which is caused by variety of clinical manifestations and the lack of uniform criteria for diagnosis. MS is a complex of metabolic disorders, which is based on dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, compensatory hyperinsulinemia. In the pediatric preclinical and clinical manifestations of MS are often hidden under the guise of various diseases associated with it, which greatly complicates the diagnosis of MS in children. In connection with the foregoing the purpose of this work was to show a clinical example of the difficulties in identifying symptoms of MS in children to optimize its diagnostic tactics.