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A cluster of symptoms that are risk factors for CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES and TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. The major components of metabolic syndrome include ABDOMINAL OBESITY; atherogenic DYSLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; a proinflammatory state; and a prothrombotic (THROMBOSIS) state.
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- Dysmetabolic Syndrome X
- Insulin Resistance Syndrome X
- Metabolic Cardiovascular Syndrome
- Metabolic Syndrome X
- Metabolic X Syndrome
- Reaven Syndrome X
- Syndrome X, Insulin Resistance
- Syndrome X, Metabolic
- Cardiovascular Syndrome, Metabolic
- Cardiovascular Syndromes, Metabolic
- Metabolic Syndromes
- Syndrome X, Dysmetabolic
- Syndrome X, Reaven
- Syndrome, Metabolic
- Syndrome, Metabolic Cardiovascular
- Syndrome, Metabolic X
- Syndromes, Metabolic
- X Syndrome, Metabolic
- Cardiometabolic Syndrome
- Cardiometabolic Syndromes
- Syndrome, Cardiometabolic
- Syndromes, Cardiometabolic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2018 (2002); for REAVEN SYNDROME X use INSULIN RESISTANCE 1998-2001
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- Insulin Resistance (1992-2001)
- Syndrome X (1996-2001)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Metabolic Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D024821. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D024821
- Metabolic Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome
- Metabolic Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q657193