Article
The dysmetabolic syndrome.
Journal of internal medicine - 1 Aug 2001
Groop L, Orho-Melander M
Abstract excerpt
The first unifying definition for the metabolic syndrome was proposed by WHO in 1998. In accordance to this, patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance have the syndrome if they fulfil two of the criteria: hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity/abdominal obesity and microalbuminuria. Persons with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) should also be insulin resistant. About 40% of persons with...
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