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Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, is soon to become the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide. Smoking has always been considered the leading risk factor for heart disease in the past. However, metabolic syndrome is now being looked upon as the number one risk factor in the new medical literature.Here is an important statistic from Diabetes Care medical journal: there are nearly 250 million adults worldwide today, 80 percent of whom will die from cardiovascular disease. However, those diabetics who also meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome are at a two-fold risk of dying from a stroke or heart attack than those who do not have the syndrome.Diagnostic criteriaThe diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome are as follows:• Dyslipidemia  (high triglycerides and low HDL)• Elevated blood pressure• Central obesity• High fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance or plain old diabetes mellitusNearly half of...
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