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Metabolic syndrome X: a review.

The Canadian journal of cardiology, 2000
Metabolic syndrome X is a multifaceted syndrome, which occurs frequently in the general population. It is more common in men than in women. A large segment of the adult population of industrialized countries develops the metabolic syndrome, produced by genetic, hormonal and lifestyle factors such as obesity, physical inactivity and certain nutrient ...
O, Timar, F, Sestier, E, Levy
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Adult fragile X syndrome: Neuropsychology, brain anatomy, and metabolism

American Journal of Medical Genetics, 1995
AbstractTo understand the implications of suboptimal gene expression in fragile X syndrome [fra(X)], we sought to define the central nervous abnormalities in fra(X) syndrome to determine if abnormalities in specific brain regions or networks might explain the cognitive and behavioral abnormalities in this syndrome.
Schapiro, M. B., Murphy, Declan, Hagerman, R. J., Azari, N. P., Alexander, G. E., Miezejeski, C. M., Hinton, V. J., Horwitz, B., Haxby, J. V., Kumar, A., White, B., Grady, C. L.   +11 more
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Molecular mechanism of vascular disease in metabolic syndrome X

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, 2002
Syndrome X is a clinical syndrome in which multiple risks are clustered in an individual and is a common basis of vascular disease in the industrial countries. However, the molecular basis of syndrome X has not been elucidated. We have analyzed body fat distribution using CT scanning and have shown that accumulated intra-abdominal visceral fat is ...
Yuji, Matsuzawa, Tohru, Funahashi, Tadashi, Nakamura   +2 more
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SYNDROME X

The Nurse Practitioner, 1996
Recent trends in the American lifestyle, such as a high-fat diet and inactivity, have promoted the emergence of a metabolic disorder titled syndrome X. Although originally linked to non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and characterized by insulin resistance, syndrome X is now better described as a cascade of disorders encompassing not only ...
L E, Minchoff, J A, Grandin
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Metabolic Syndrome X: A Postmenopausal Woman's Hidden Nemesis

Journal of Women & Aging, 1997
ABSTRACT Metabolic syndrome X is a combination of modifiable (physiological, morphological, lifestyle) and non-modifiable (genotype, sex, age, race) risk factors that are likely precursors to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), two of the top ten killers of postmenopausal women.
Lynda B. Ransdell, Heather Shaw, Deborah Ostlund   +2 more
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Myocardial Metabolism in Cardiac Syndrome X

1999
Patients with normal coronary arteries who experience chest pain have constituted an enigma for many years. As some of these patients have ischemia-like ST segment depression in response to exercise stress testing attempts have been made to ascertain whether the syndrome has an ischemic etiology.
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Metabolic Syndrome X and low-grade systemic inflammation

2002
The most important features of Metabolic Syndrome X are: obesity, insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia (hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL-cholesterol), impaired glucose tolerance, including impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension1.
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Association between metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: The role of lipids, inflammatory cytokines, altered host response, and the microbiome

Periodontology 2000, 2021
Flavia Pirih, Jae Min Shin, Tsute Chen
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Unravelling metabolic syndrome X

Drug Discovery Today, 2001
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The Metabolic Syndrome X

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999
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