Welcome to the new MSI Newsletter & Literature Watch. The all-in-one publication features the latest news, events and research related to the metabolic syndrome.

DEFINITION
  • Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of death in heart failure patients
    (Posted: 08/24 | View Article)
EPIDEMIOLOGY
  • Hyperglycaemia is associated with adverse lipid profile in Asians without prior history of diabetes
    (Posted: 08/24 | View Article)
  • Low serum testosterone as predictor of metabolic syndrome in men
    (Posted: 08/28 | View Article)
  • Higher risk of metabolic syndrome in patients with airflow obstruction
    (Posted: 08/26 | View Article)
  • Optimal body mass index for minimizing CHD risk lies somewhere <22.5 kg/m2
    (Posted: 08/20 | View Article)
  • Breastfeeding in infancy inversely associated with adult body mass index and positively associated with HDL cholesterol
    (Posted: 08/19 | View Article)
  • Increasing parity associated with a higher incidence of metabolic syndrome, independent of prior obesity and pregnancy-related weight gain
    (Posted: 08/18 | View Article)
  • Overweight or obesity during early adulthood associated with greater risk of pancreatic cancer
    (Posted: 08/17 | View Article)
  • Metabolic syndrome as a marker for high utilization and costs among patients receiving medical care
    (Posted: 08/14 | View Article)
  • Metabolic syndrome associated with silent brain infarction in elderly people
    (Posted: 08/12 | View Article)
  • Metabolic syndrome associated with increased risk of both ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke
    (Posted: 08/11 | View Article)
  • Smoking confers a high risk for stroke across European populations
    (Posted: 08/05 | View Article)
PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
  • Metabolic syndrome is associated with increased aortic pulse pressure and ascending aortic pulsatility in patients with normal coronary arteries
    (Posted: 08/27 | View Article)
  • Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver in children and adolescents closely related to metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and waist circumference
    (Posted: 08/21 | View Article)
  • Inflammatory mediators in morbidly obese subjects associated with glucose homeostasis abnormalities
    (Posted: 08/10 | View Article)
  • Lower urinary tract symptoms linked to metabolic syndrome in men
    (Posted: 08/07 | View Article)
  • Sympathetic overactivity not uniformly distributed over the cardiovascular system in metabolic syndrome
    (Posted: 08/04 | View Article)
MS COMPONENTS / RISK FACTORS / ASSOCIATED RISKS


HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

  • Obese subjects with prehypertension are at increased risk of kidney disease
    (Posted: 08/06 | View Article)

ABDOMINAL OBESITY

  • Higher adherence to a Mediterranean diet shown to be associated with lower abdominal adiposity in both genders
    (Posted: 08/25 | View Article)
PROGNOSIS / OUTCOMES

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

  • Metabolic syndrome as powerful determinant of long-term all-cause and cardiovascular death after acute coronary syndrome
    (Posted: 08/31 | View Article)

Framingham Risk Assessment Tool
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Procam Risk Calculator
Estimates your risk of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) within the next 10 years based upon data of the PROCAM Study
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SCORE
(European High Risk Chart)
Estimates 10 year risk of fatal CVD in high risk regions of Europe by gender, age, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and smoking status.
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UKPDS Risk Engine
The UKPDS Risk Engine is a type 2 diabetes specific risk calculator based on 53,000 patients years of data from the UK Prospective Diabetes Study, which also provides an approximate 'margin of error' for each estimate.
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