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The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2006 The Metabolic syndrome is a widely prevalent and multi-factorial disorder. The syndrome has been given several names, including- the metabolic syndrome, the insulin resistance syndrome, the plurimetabolic syndrome, and the deadly quartet. With the formulation of NCEP/ATP III guidelines, some uniformity and standardization has occurred in the definition
Atul, Gogia, P K, Agarwal
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Acta Diabetologica, 2003 The metabolic syndrome is characterized by diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and polycystic ovary syndrome. The lipid profiles of patient with metabolic syndrome is often characterized by the appearance of hypertrygliceridaemia and small, dense LDL-cholesterol, together with low HDL-cholesterol. Patients with these abnormalities
Thang S. Han, Michael E.J. Lean
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2006 The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities leading to increased risk for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes type 2. Its prevalence is increasing with aging. There exists actually an epidemic of MS. Visceral obesity and the resulting insulin resistance (IR) are the major determinant in the development of the MS.
T, Fulop, D, Tessier, A, Carpentier
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Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, 2008 Hirsutism is a finding that can lead to subsequent metabolic diagnoses such as the metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors associated with overweight and obesity. Although it has been the subject of some controversy, perhaps due to the many definitions proposed by different health organizations ...
Tamio, Teramoto +11 more
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Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, 2014 Metabolic syndrome is not a disease per se, but is a term that highlights traits that may have an increased risk of disease, approximately 2-fold for cardiovascular disease and 5-fold or more for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Obesity and insulin resistance are believed to be at the core of most cases of metabolic syndrome, although further research is ...
Tamio, Teramoto +17 more
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Endocrine Reviews, 2008 The "metabolic syndrome" (MetS) is a clustering of components that reflect overnutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and resultant excess adiposity. The MetS includes the clustering of abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and elevated blood pressure and is associated with other comorbidities including the prothrombotic state, proinflammatory
Marc-Andre, Cornier +8 more
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Role of a Critical Visceral Adipose Tissue Threshold (CVATT) in Metabolic Syndrome: Implications for Controlling Dietary Carbohydrates: A Review [PDF]
, 2004 There are likely many scenarios and pathways that can lead to metabolic syndrome. This paper reviews mechanisms by which the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) may contribute to the metabolic syndrome, and explores the paradigm of a critical ...
Freedland, Eric S.
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Chemical analysis of atherosclerotic plaque cholesterol combined with histology of the same tissue
Journal of Lipid Research, 2008 Sensitive method for chemical analysis of free cholesterol (FC) and cholesterol esters (CE) was developed. Mouse arteries were dissected and placed in chloroform-methanol without tissue grinding.
Ming-Shang Kuo +8 more
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Nursing Standard, 2003 Prevention of disease rather than its alleviation or cure has always been the aim of healthcare professionals. While this goal has been achieved for many infectious diseases through improvements in hygiene and vaccination, as well as for acute deficiency diseases such as scurvy, less progress has been made with chronic diseases. These are increasing as
F A, Gries, H, Liebermeister
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