RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Metabolic syndrome: Controversial but useful
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 199
OP 208
VO 74
IS 3
A1 Stolar, Mark
YR 2007
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/3/199.abstract
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.