Metabolic Syndrome
This is because they can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes over any independent risk factor for these conditions.
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Metabolic Syndrome - Family Physician <p>Local Family Physician discusses metabolic syndrome in women.</p>Local Family Physician discusses metabolic syndrome in women.
Metabolic Syndrome - Family Physician
For example, cholesterol changes and these would be high triglycerides. So for example, triglycerides above 1.7 or low HDL. HDL is the good cholesterol in the blood.
Elevated waist circumference is another risk factor. This would be a waist circumference above 80 centimeters in women and above 94 centimeters in men.