Could you describe 'metabolic syndrome'?
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The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. â– A quarter of the world’s adults have metabolic syndrome â– People with metabolic syndrome are twice as likely to die from, and three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome â– People with metabolic syndrome have a five-fold greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes â– Up to 80% of the 200 million people with diabetes globally will die of cardiovascular disease â– This puts metabolic syndrome and diabetes way ahead of HIV/AIDS in morbidity and mortality terms yet the problem is not as well recognised Source: http://www.idf.org/metabolic_syndrome +5
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It's several conditions (high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol) that a person may have all at once; putting them at a much greater risk for strokes, heart attacks, instant death; etc.
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