PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stolar, Mark
TI  - Metabolic syndrome: Controversial but useful
DP  - 2007 Mar 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 199--208
VI  - 74
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/3/199.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/3/199.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2007 Mar 01; 74
AB  - The metabolic syndrome—the cluster of obesity, impaired fasting glucose, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and hypertension—may not be a “real” syndrome in the strict sense. It can, however, still be a useful concept if it prompts a physician to look for and treat additional risk factors when a patient is found to have one risk factor, or if it helps persuade patients to undertake healthy lifestyle changes before they develop overt diabetes mellitus or coronary artery disease.