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[Do syndromes X, cardiac and metabolic, have any similar characteristics?].
Folia medica Cracoviensia - 1 Jan 2003
Leśniak Wiktoria, Kolasińska-Kloch Władysława
Abstract excerpt
Two syndromes are called syndromes X: cardiac (effort anginal pain, positive exercise tolerance test and absence of angiographically documented critical stenosis in coronary arteries) and metabolic (according to WHO definition: impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance and > or = 2 risk factors from the following list: hypertension, dyslipidaemia, visceral obesity and microalbuminuria). Hyperinsulinaemia...
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