[Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease]
Abstract:
We provide an overview of the current views on the association between metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Insulin resistance, frequently onsetting from obesity and associated hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and diabetes mellitus, is the common denominator. We also highlight another risk factor - heart rate, closely related to the prognosis of healthy individuals, patients with hypertension and patients following myocardial infarction. Finally, we present the results of the CRUSADE study that has clearly described the association between obesity and age and the first manifestation of the ischemic heart disease.
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