AIMS Epidemiologic studies assessing cardiovascular risk factors affecting a given population may prove cost-effective to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world. We evaluated the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Atahualpa, a village representative of rural coastal Ecuador. METHODS Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its correlation with the cardiovasc...

BACKGROUND Hyperhomocysteinemia and the metabolic syndrome are established cardiovascular risk factors and are frequently associated with hypertension. The relationship of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) with the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, however, is debated and studies in hypertensive patients are limited. In this study, we have investigated the association of Hcy with the metabolic...

background: despite the great impact of diet on the metabolic syndrome, limited data are available relating dietary energy density to this syndrome. furthermore, due to specific characteristics of diet in middle-eastern countries, looking for the association between dietary energy density and metabolic syndrome in this part of the world would be interesting. this study was performed to assess t...

Metabolic syndrome is associated with increased propensity for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Low-grade inflammation is characteristic of metabolic syndrome. C-reactive protein, the best characterized biomarker of inflammation, is also an independent predictor of future cardiovascular events. This review outlines the role of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in contributing to increased...

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 to elucidate the frequency of traditional and novel cardiovascular and metabolic syndrome risk factors in patients with chronic kidney disease. Identification of these risk factors will allow for ...

The use of the category of metabolic syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes has been questioned by many authors (1,2). In fact, in most studies performed in the general population, the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome is associated with increased risk of diabetes (3–5) and, to a lesser extent, of cardiovascular disease (6); however, data on the impact of metabolic syndrome on cardiovascular m...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the prognostic significance of the metabolic syndrome in hypertension. BACKGROUND Increased cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients might be partially attributable to metabolic disturbances. METHODS We prospectively followed for up to 10.5 years (mean 4.1 years) a total of 1742 hypertensive patients without cardiovascular disease (55% men; blood pressu...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is more likely to progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in African Americans while the reasons for this are unclear. The metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for the development of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and has been recently linked to incident CKD. Historically, fewer African Americans meet criteria for the definition of metabolic syndrome, despite h...

BACKGROUND Metabolic Syndrome and diabetes mellitus are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. However, the effects of Metabolic Syndrome with or without diabetes on perioperative and long-term morbidity and mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft remain unclear. METHODS An retrospective study was performed on 1166 patients who received isolated primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in ...