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Metabolic Syndrome X in Overweight Teenagers

Nearly 1 million U.S. teenagers suffer from Metabolic Syndrome X - a syndrome associated with being overweight that makes them unusually prone to diabetes and premature heart disease later in life, according to a recent weight study.

In the latest indication of a deepening health crisis because of the nation's obesity epidemic, researchers determined that at least 4 percent of American adolescents have developed " Metabolic Syndrome X," a constellation of risk factors for subsequent health problems.

"It's frighteningly common," said Michael Weitzman, director of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research, who helped conduct the first-of-its-kind research. "It's very, very disturbing. You're talking about people who haven't even become adults yet who are already on the way to cardiovascular disease."

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