Now, diagnosing the metabolic syndrome has probably filtered all the way down to your local general internist.
PPARs have been known to exist for 14 years, but their suspected role in metabolic syndrome emerged only gradually.
Drinking large amounts of soda can increase your risk of developing metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and dental caries.
Prevalence of the pre-diabetic condition referred to as the metabolic syndrome has also increased in the past two decades.
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Many of these subjects were already health-impaired, suffering from asthma, metabolic syndrome, and aging (up to 75 years old).
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Forty-seven million Americans have metabolic syndrome, which means they have at least three risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.
This could help explain the fact that the form of diabetes that follows metabolic syndrome can involve damage to pancreatic cells.
Panagiotakos of Harakopio University, Athens, found the diet had beneficial effects against five components of a prediabetic condition called the metabolic syndrome.
But when other physicians sat down to draw up guidelines, they came up with another term for the disorder: the metabolic syndrome.
Researchers found eating two servings of meat per day, such as burger patties, increased the risk of metabolic syndrome by 26 percent.
The metabolic syndrome criteria are not particularly good at identifying insulin resistance.
It does, though, raise important questions about how metabolic syndrome is treated.
After five trials, researchers found that people with metabolic syndrome couldn't remember as many words the first few times after initially hearing them.
For one, the benefit against the metabolic syndrome was found mostly in studies conducted in Mediterranean countries, and not in countries outside of that region.
If drugmakers can find new drugs that can silence Syndrome X, also known as metabolic syndrome, they could deal a devastating blow to heart disease--and reap huge sales.
"Metabolic syndrome has been embraced by everybody, " says Bakris.
These people rapidly develop the symptoms of metabolic syndrome.
Amgen also has a partnership with Stockholm's Biovitrum to develop new drugs for the metabolic syndrome, a constellation of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that has big drug firms salivating.
Yet they're exposed to anti-convulsants, anti-psychotic drugs, which have serious long-term side effects in the form of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and some movement disorders ... that can leave a person extremely disfigured physically.
The market is even larger given the new appreciation for a condition called the metabolic syndrome, a hodgepodge of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that is estimated to afflict some 50 million Americans.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent: This study says metabolic syndrome is a problem in the United States because of the way we eat: lots of red meat, lots of processed meat, and too much fried food.
In a paper in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism they argue that insulin resistance is another side-effect of metabolic syndrome whose cause is lipid molecules poisoning tissues in which they are not supposed to be present in large quantities.
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Dr Unger and Dr Scherer suggest that this failure of the leptin mechanism, particularly its role in oxidising lipids, is crucial to the development of metabolic syndrome, and that it is a pathology of adipose tissue that has become overloaded.
In other words, chronically eating added sugar reduces BDNF, and then the lowered levels of the brain chemical begin contributing to insulin resistance, which leads to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which eventually leads to a host of other health problems.
The discovery that both boys had a rare metabolic condition called Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), which results from a failure of the body to make its own cholesterol, explained many of their struggles during their early years.
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