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syndrome

In medicine, a set of signs and symptoms that always occur together, thus characterizing a particular condition or disorder.



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Metabolic syndrome is also known as metabolic syndrome X, syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, Reaven''s syndrome, CHAOS (Australia), or metabo (Japan).
The metabolic syndrome (also referred to as syndrome X or the insulin resistance syndrome) has emerged as an important cluster of risk factors for atherosclerotic disease.
Metabolic syndrome, also known as insulin resistance syndrome or syndrome X, was devised more than a decade ago as a descriptive term to denote the clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD)--including dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, and hypertension--thought to be attributable to underlying insulin resistance.
 
 
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