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metabolic
(redirected from metabolic syndrome)

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metabolic [‚med·ə′bäl·ik]
(physiology)
Of or pertaining to metabolism.


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Lead researcher Dr Oscar Franco, Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at Warwick Medical School, and colleagues sought to etermine the prevalence and progress of Metabolic Syndrome as part of the Framingham Offspring Study He said: "Metabolic syndrome is a highly prevalent condition that is increasing dramatically and affects a large portion of the middle-age population.
Speaking at the Primary Health Congress in Abu Dhabi, Dr John Chambers, a cardiologist at Imperial College London, revealed that a combination of genes and the environment is driving the explosion of metabolic syndrome prevalence, worldwide.
adults have metabolic syndrome and this greatly increases our risk of heart disease.
 
 
 
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