Metabolic Syndrome

Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Alkalosis

Metabolic Acidosis

Metabolic Nephropathies

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...

Improvement of erectile function by Korean red ginseng (Panax ginseng) in a male rat model of metabolic syndrome.

The seriousness of metabolic syndrome is not due to the disease itself but its promotion of other diseases, such as erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. We investigate...

The Association between Conventional Antidepressants and the Metabolic Syndrome: A Review of the Evidence and Clinical Implications.

Major depressive disorder is a prevalent recurrent medical syndrome associated with inter-episodic dysfunction. The metabolic syndrome is comprised of several established risk factors for cardiovascul...

Frequency of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Objective Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of cardio-metabolic risk factors. Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in end stage renal disease. The aim of this study was...

Metabolic syndrome as a risk factor for neurological disorders.

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of common pathologies: abdominal obesity linked to an excess of visceral fat, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension. At the molecular level, metabolic s...

Serum levels of angiopoietin-related growth factor are increased in metabolic syndrome.

Angiopoietin-related growth factor (AGF), a novel hepatokine, showed therapeutic implications in diabetic and obese animal models. Although the physiologic functions of human AGF have not yet been ide...