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BREAKING NEWS
A Major Breakthrough: Five Major Organizations Agree on the Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
Five major scientific organizations – the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the American Heart Association (AHA), the World Heart Federation (WHF), the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS), and the International Association of the Study of Obesity (IASO) – have just released a joint interim statement that represents a giant leap toward a unified definition of the metabolic syndrome. Individuals who meet at least 3 of 5 clinical criteria will be diagnosed as having the condition; presence of none of these criteria is mandatory. Explicit cutpoints are defined for all criteria, except elevated waist circumference, which must rely on population and country-specific definitions.
This long awaited statement opens novel perspectives in terms of detection and management of the metabolic syndrome, and will also facilitate research in the field. Its development was sponsored by the IDF and supported in part by the Metabolic Syndrome Institute (MSI) and its partners.
Read joint interim statement
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
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- Low serum vitamin D in US adolescents strongly associated
with hypertension, hyperglycaemia, and metabolic syndrome
(Posted: 09/30 | View
Article)
- Trend toward higher bone mineral density in men with
metabolic syndrome
(Posted: 09/23 | View
Article)
- Waist-to-thigh ratio associated with peripheral
vascular disease in both men and women
(Posted: 09/22 | View
Article)
- Excess weight associated with increased risk
of coronary heart disease among men and women
(Posted: 09/21 | View
Article)
- Prevalence and pattern of lipid abnormalities
in Nigerian patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes
(Posted: 09/16 | View
Article)
- Childhood parental history of type 2 diabetes
associated with increased risk of prediabetes and
diabetes in adulthood
(Posted: 09/15 | View
Article)
- Impaired fasting glucose is highly prevalent in Chinese
children and adolescents with prehypertension/hypertension
(Posted: 09/09 | View
Article)
- Cigarette smoking as an independent risk factor for
metabolic syndrome in Japanese men
(Posted: 09/08 | View
Article)
- Hostility associated with visceral but not subcutaneous
fat in women
(Posted: 09/07 | View
Article)
- Association between type of dietary fish and other
seafood intake and risk of type 2 diabetes
(Posted: 09/04 | View
Article)
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL
ASPECTS
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- Visceral fat-dominant accumulation associated with hepatic
insulin resistance in men with type 2 diabetes
(Posted: 09/24 | View
Article)
- Children with nonalcoholic fatty liver may develop
end-stage liver disease
(Posted: 09/17| View
Article)
- Early detection and prevention of chronic kidney
disease in nondiabetic, nonhypertensive adults with metabolic
syndrome
(Posted: 09/14 | View
Article)
- Age-related variation in systemic inflammatory markers
largely explained by differences in visceral adipose tissue
(Posted: 09/03 | View
Article)
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MS
COMPONENTS / RISK FACTORS / ASSOCIATED RISKS
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HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
- Abnormal waist circumference
associated with microalbuminuria in hypertensive patients
(Posted: 09/28 | View
Article)
- Subjects
with prehypertension are at increased risk of diabetes
(Posted: 09/18 | View
Article)
HYPERTRIGLYCERIDAEMIA
- Hypertriglyceridaemia as independent risk factor
for chronic kidney disease in Taiwanese adults
(Posted: 09/29 | View
Article)
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PROGNOSIS
/ OUTCOMES
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DIABETES
- Higher adiponectin levels associated with lower risk
of type 2 diabetes across diverse populations
(Posted: 09/02 | View
Article)
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
- High prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients
with carotid atherosclerosis
(Posted: 09/11 | View
Article)
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