BACKGROUND There is evidence linking the Metabolic Syndrome with an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, previously thought to be rare in Africa but now a major public health concern. OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of occurrence of the Metabolic Syndrome among patients presenting with cardiovascular disease at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana. METHODS This was a ...

background: metabolic syndrome (mets) is a serious public health concern worldwide; however, the pathogenesis of this disease has not been yet cleared. this study aimed to compare diet quality in obese/overweight participants with/without metabolic syndrome with normal weight controls.   methods: this was a comparative study on 147 iranian adults under treatment at the endocrinology center of t...

Metabolic syndrome, a constellation of conditions including obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and insulin resistance, has increased to epidemic proportions. Metabolic syndrome has been recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and is likely related to the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases. Perhaps not coincidentally, its growth in incidence has paralleled that of atrial fibri...

background: metabolic syndrome (mets) is a complex clustering cardiovascular risk factors such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. it has been a growing health problem in iranian adults in recent decade. the objective of this article was to review the prevalence of mets and the corresponding risk factors among iranian adults.methods: we conducted a systematic review t...

Complement C3 levels were significantly elevated in subjects with metabolic syndrome compared to the control population (139.95±9.59, 102.12±6.65; p<0.001). Significant difference was also noted in women with metabolic syndrome compared to men with metabolic syndrome (p<0.001).Complement C3 correlated significantly with waist circumference, BMI and total count. C3 also correlated with TC, LDL, ...

The aim of this study was to describe the incidence of metabolic syndrome and to identify five components as metabolic syndrome predictors. The final study included 1,095 subjects enrolled in a rural part of Daegu Metropolitan City, Korea for a cohort study in 2003. Of these, 762 (69.6%) subjects had participated in the repeat survey. During the five-year follow-up, incidence density was signif...

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence suggests that the metabolic syndrome and inflammation affect cognitive decline in old age and that they reinforce each other. However, it is not known what the roles of the individual components of the metabolic syndrome on cognition are. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The sample consisted of 1,183 participants in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam who were aged 65-...