Metabolic Syndrome

Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Acidosis

Metabolic Nephropathies

Metabolic Alkalosis

Metabolic Syndrome Affects Cognition in Obese Teens

Obese teens with metabolic syndrome score lower on IQ, spelling, and math tests than their counterparts who do not have metabolic syndrome. Medscape Medical News

Are gender and ethnicity risk factors for metabolic syndrome in children?

Metabolic syndrome is more likely to affect children who are obese than overweight or non-overweight and who have other characteristics associated with the disorder, such as high blood pressure or ins...

Subthreshold metabolic syndrome common in drug-naïve schizophrenia patients

Around 1 in 10 antipsychotic-naïve Indian patients with schizophrenia meet full criteria for the metabolic syndrome, but a significantly larger proportion have subthreshold metabolic syndrome, resear...

Metabolic syndrome meets osteoarthritis

Metabolic osteoarthritis (OA) is increasingly recognized as a subtype of OA, and its aetiology has much in common with that of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Indeed, as the authors explain in this Review,...

Do Gender And Ethnicity Alter Childhood Risk For Metabolic Syndrome?

Metabolic syndrome is more likely to affect children who are obese than overweight or non-overweight and who have other characteristics associated with the disorder, such as high blood pressure or ins...

Aetna releases two new metabolic syndrome programs to lower risk factors

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced the launch of "Metabolic Health in Small Bytes" and the "Metabolic Health Advisor." The two new components can help people control the risk factors associated with me...

Increasing age, male sex and adiposity risk factors for metabolic syndrome in children

Metabolic syndrome is more likely to affect children who are obese than overweight or non-overweight and who have other characteristics associated with the disorder, such as high blood pressure or ins...

Improved Diagnosis Of Metabolic Syndrome In Children

Researchers have developed a new scoring system that may better identify adolescents with the metabolic syndrome, a group at increased risk of later developing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The s...

Hb AHVAZ α83(F4)Leu→Arg, CTG>CGG (α2); HBA2: c.251T>G,A NEW HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT OF THE α2-GLOBIN GENE.

We report a novel mutation on the α2-globin gene, codon 83 (T>G), which was detected in two members of two unrelated families from Khuzestan Province, South Iran, that we named Hb Ahvaz. This mutatio...

Identification and Clinical use of the Metabolic Syndrome.

The Metabolic Syndrome is characterised by the following components: atherogenic dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure, elevated glucose and abdominal obesity. 22% of 415 patients of an outpatient cli...

Cardiovascular-metabolic impact of adiponectin and aquaporin Review.

Visceral fat accumulation is located upstream of metabolic syndrome. Recent progress in adipocyte biology has clarified the molecular mechanism for pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome and its relate...

Psoriasis and metabolic syndrome.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory and immune-mediated disease associated with several comorbidities, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disorder. These...

Metabolic Syndrome, Androgens, and Hypertension.

Obesity is one of the constellation of factors that make up the definition of the metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is also associated with insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia,...