Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is highly significant due to its association to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of MS according to the report of the Iranian National Committee of Obesity criteria (INCO) versus Adult Treatment Panel III (ATPIII) in Babol, North of Iran. Methods: Data obtained based on criteria ATP III from...

Copyright © 2012 Yingmei Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Obesity, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension often cluster together as the most significant risk factors for cardiovascular diseas...

Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) plays a key role in the metabolic syndrome. Easy detection of VAT could be an important tool to increase understanding of the metabolic syndrome. To study the relationship between the area of the inferior part of the perirenal fat (AIPPF) and anthropometric, imaging and cardiovascular risk factors of metabolic syndrome, seventy two subjects with metabolic syndrome ...

BACKGROUND Endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) at physiological concentrations is cytoprotective, whereas excess levels reflect underlying oxidative stress, inflammation, and vascular pathology and portend adverse clinical sequelae. However, the relation of exhaled CO to metabolic/vascular risk in the community is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS We related exhaled CO, a surrogate measure of blood CO...

Background—Endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) at physiological concentrations is cytoprotective, whereas excess levels reflect underlying oxidative stress, inflammation, and vascular pathology and portend adverse clinical sequelae. However, the relation of exhaled CO to metabolic/vascular risk in the community is unknown. Methods and Results—We related exhaled CO, a surrogate measure of blood CO c...

Insulin resistance is characterized by an impaired physiological response to insulin. The constellation of insulin resistance, and several other metabolic and vascular disorders, is known as the insulin resistance syndrome, or metabolic syndrome. The characteristic features of metabolic syndrome include;central obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance, and abnormalities in bo...

BACKGROUND The metabolic syndrome is defined as an assemblage of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, and menopause is associated with an increase in metabolic syndrome prevalence. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components among postmenopausal women in Tehran, Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study in menopause clinic in Tehran, 118 ...

The metabolic syndrome consists of a cluster of metabolic disorders, many of which promote the development of atherosclerosis and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease events. Insulin resistance may lie at the heart of the metabolic syndrome. Elevated serum triglycerides commonly associate with insulin resistance and represent a valuable clinical marker of the metabolic syndrome. Abdomina...

objective: to ascertain the effects of soy [in the forms of textured soy protein (tsp) and soy-nut] on lipid profiles, apolipoproteins, inflammatory and prothrombotic markers and blood pressure in elderly women with the metabolic syndrome. materials and methods: the study is a 12-week parallel randomized controlled trial that was conducted in rural health centres of babol, iran. the participant...

The comorbidity of arterial hypertension (AH), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity leads to the early development atherosclerotic lesions coronary and cerebral vessels, which, in turn, significantly accelerates occurrence disease (CHD), vascular disasters, namely, myocardial infarction (MI), stroke. Comorbidity fully refers concept “metabolic syndrome”. By definition, metabolic syndrome (M...