Solving Metabolic Syndrome’s Addition Problem (Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter, November 2005)

Solving Metabolic Syndrome’s Addition Problem
Scientists are debating whether this syndrome’s parts really add up to a greater combined health worry as whole. Here’s what you can do now to reduce your risk, regardless.

November 2005

Abstract

Your doctor may call it “metabolic syndrome” or “insulin resistance syndrome” or “Syndrome X.” It sounds complicated, but it’s frighteningly simple: As many as 47 million American adults have the symptoms—obesity, centered in the abdomen; low good cholesterol; high blood pressure; and high fasting glucose and triglyceride counts—that are widely seen as increasing the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

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Solving Metabolic Syndrome’s Addition Problem Scientists are debating whether this syndrome’s parts really add up to a greater combined health worry as whole. Here’s what you can do now to reduce your risk, regardless.

November 2005

Abstract

Solving Metabolic Syndrome’s Addition Problem
Scientists are debating whether this syndrome’s parts really add up to a greater combined health worry as whole. Here’s what you can do now to reduce your risk, regardless.