… increase in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), respectively, it … public health
challenge around the world. Since its initial description, several definitions of the syndrome …

… of the metabolic syndrome improves … global data on the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome,
this paper will focus primarily on the individual risk factors rather than on the full syndrome…

… global data on metabolic syndrome—which is harder to measure, but since MetS is about
three times more common than diabetes, the global … While a dedicated group of public health …

… public health concern affecting nearly all populations in developed and developing countries
[6]. The global … increased risk of cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease and stroke)…

… However, obesity is a highly complex condition that is influenced by genetic as well as
environmental factors. The metabolic syndrome comprises of central obesity, impaired glucose tol…

… public health importance of IHD and T2DM, that the present review is being undertaken in
respect of Metabolic Syndrome (… , globally, as well as from our country that it is a major public …

OBJECTIVES: To determine the gender-specific prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (Met
S) in a representative sample of Iranian adults, and to identify some possible related lifestyle …

… prospect of averting a public health catastrophe for Europe and indeed for the whole world.
… that the identification of metabolic syndrome predicts coronary heart disease events, and …

… of diabetes, as well as cardiovascular and kidney disease, the metabolic syndrome will have
an enormous burden on world economies and public health without effective interventions. …

… Because the prevalence of obesity has been increasing at a frightening rate in the past few
decades, MetS represents a major public health problem that should be identified clinically in …