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Objective: Metabolic syndrome is characterised by high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, high triglyceride levels, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and excess body fat around the waist. People with metabolic syndrome have the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. However, early diagnosis, intervention and treatment can decrease the cardiovascular risk. In this research, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Kazakhstan's population and socio-demographic characteristics of metabolic syndrome were evaluated. Design and method: 3683 Kazakhstan citizens (2829 women and 854 men) aged 18 to 65 were examined. Metabolic syndrome is diagnosed according to measurements of waist, triglyceride level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose. Results: 543 people (282 city dwellers and 261 villagers, 102 men and 441 women) were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, which accounted for 14,74% of examined population. It is necessary to point out that 30 people (5,52% cases) were aged 40 or less. 11,23% of metabolic syndrome cases belonged to ‘40 to 48’ age group. For‘48 to 56’ age group metabolic syndrome frequency increased more than twice and constituted 38,12%. A maximum number of metabolic syndrome cases was identified for ‘56 to 65’ group and amounted to 45,12%. Among men metabolic syndrome frequency totalled 11,94% and was significantly different from metabolic syndrome frequency among women (15,4%). 78,23% of women and 73,53% of men with metabolic syndrome were ‘50 or older’. Among people with metabolic syndrome for age group ‘40 and younger’ the percentage of men (10,78%) was significantly higher, than of women (4,50%). Among people with metabolic syndrome only 18,11% of cases were individuals with higher education. More than half of all individuals with metabolic syndrome were engaged in physical labor. Percentage of widowed individuals among people with metabolic syndrome (20,93%) was significantly higher compared to percentage of widowed people without metabolic syndrome (8%). Conclusions: Analysis of metabolic syndrome prevalence, for Kazakhstan citizens discovered that the maximum number of people with metabolic syndrome was found for ‘56 to 65’ group. Metabolic syndrome occurs more frequently among women than men. Among men, metabolic syndrome manifests itself earlier in life.