Metabolic syndrome is a term for a condition in which risk factors—such as abdominal obesity, high triglyceride level, low level of good cholesterol (also known as high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or HDL-C), high blood pressure, and high blood sugar—cluster together, putting a patient at higher risk for heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and stroke.

» Continue Reading

Related terms:

• Philippine food donts for diabetes mellitus type 2
• clower leave syndrome
• exercise dos and donts of metabolic syndrome
• In general a person who has metabolic syndrome is twice as likely to develop heart disease and five times as likely to develop diabetes as someone who doesn\t have metabolic syndrome
• management for diabetic retinopathy
• person with metabolic syndrome is as twice as likely to develope heart disease and five times as likely to develope diabetes melitus