Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk

Charbonnel, B.

La Revue du Praticien 55(16): 1765-1771

2005


ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640
PMID: 16363426
Document Number: 590095
Metabolic syndrome points out numerous vascular risk factors clustering together, due to a common mechanistic substratum, visceral obesity and insulin resistance. The definitions of the syndrome allow to identify individuals at risk of vascular disease and diabetes but actually do not add anything to the predictive value of the individual components of the syndrome. Metabolic syndrome could become a target for some specific therapeutic interventions.

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