- ►ahajournals.org SM Grundy, JI Cleeman, SR Daniels, KA Donato, RH … - Circulation, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc The metabolic syndrome is a constellation of interrelated risk factors of metabolic origin—metabolic
risk factors—that appear to directly promote the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular
disease (ASCVD). 1 Patients with the metabolic syndrome also are at increased risk for ... Cited by 2071 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
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REVIEW R. Kahn . J. Buse . E. Ferrannini . M. Stern The metabolic syndrome: time
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- ►stanford.edu [PDF] LF Van Gaal, AM Rissanen, AJ Scheen, O Ziegler, S … - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier Weight loss at 1 year was significantly greater in patients treated with rimonabant 5 mg (mean
−3·4 kg [SD 5·7]; p=0·002 vs placebo) and 20 mg (−6·6 kg [7·2]; p<0·001 vs placebo) compared
with placebo (−1·8 kg [6·4]). Significantly more patients treated with rimonabant 20 mg ... Cited by 688 - Related articles - All 24 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org ES Ford, WH Giles, AH Mokdad - Diabetes care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—A total of 6,436 men and women aged ≥20 years from
the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988–1994) and 1,677
participants from NHANES 1999–2000 were included in the analyses. We used the ... Cited by 638 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
AM McNeill, WD Rosamond, CJ Girman, SH … - Diabetes care, 2005 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS— The metabolic syndrome was present in ∼23% of individuals without diabetes or
prevalent CVD at baseline. Over an average of 11 years of follow-up, 879 incident CHD and
216 ischemic stroke events occurred. Among the components of the metabolic syndrome, ... Cited by 456 - Related articles - All 13 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org CE Tan, S Ma, D Wai, SK Chew, ES Tai - Diabetes care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—We used data from the 1998 Singapore National Health
Survey, a cross-sectional survey involving 4,723 men and women of Chinese, Malay, and
Asian-Indian ethnicity aged 18–69 years. Receiver operating characteristic analysis ... Cited by 373 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►endojournals.org T Apridonidze, PA Essah, MJ Iuorno, JE … - Journal of Clinical …, 2005 - Endocrine Soc Prevalence of the MBS was 43%, nearly 2-fold higher than that reported for age-matched women
in the general population. Women with PCOS had persistently higher prevalence rates of the
MBS than women in the general population, regardless of matched age and body mass ... Cited by 274 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
AJ Cameron, JE Shaw, PZ Zimmet - … and metabolism clinics of North America, 2004 - Elsevier The concept of the metabolic syndrome has now been in existence for several decades;
however, it has only been since some agreement on definitions of the syndrome was reached
that it has been possible to compare the prevalence among populations worldwide. Just ... Cited by 252 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►endojournals.org MC Carr, JD Brunzell - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2004 - Endocrine Soc Regional body fat distribution has an important influence on metabolic and cardiovascular risk
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- ►usc.edu [PDF] ML Cruz, MI Goran - Current Diabetes Reports, 2004 - Springer Introduction Although the components of the metabolic syndrome were first described over 40
years ago, it was only recently that both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United
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