Ebook The metabolic syndrome

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and raised fasting plasma glucose, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It is estimated that around 20-25 per cent of the world’s adult population have the metabolic syndrome and
they are twice as likely to die from and three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome. In addition, people with metabolic
syndrome have a fivefold greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

They would add to the 230 million people worldwide who already have diabetes, one of the most common
chronic diseases worldwide and the fourth or fifth leading cause of death in the developed world. The clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors that typifies the metabolic syndrome is now
considered to be the driving force for a new CVD epidemic.

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