Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome defined by the International Diabetes Federation among adults in the U.S.

By E. Ford. Diabetes Care, 2005

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Metabolic syndrome: a closer look at the growing epidemic and its associated pathologies (2015, background): “In 2012, in the United States alone the cost of T2DM was $245 billion, with CVD costs $108.9 billion annually.”
Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases (2015, background): “The International Diabetes Federation (Ford, 2005) defines metabolic syndrome as follows: Abdominal obesity, i.e., waist circumference ≥94 cm for men and ≥80 cm for women, plus at least two of the following four risk factors: Plasma concentration of triglycerides ≥1.7 mmol/L Plasma concentration of…”
Metabolism Disrupting Chemicals and Metabolic Disorders (2016, neutral): “There is an inverse correlation between free thyroxine (fT4) values and body mass index (BMI), even when fT4 values remain in the normal range [173, 174] .”