Commentary The metabolic syndrome in China

摘要

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of abnormalities including obesity, dyslipidaemia, abnormal blood glucose and raised blood pressure . Reaven drew attention to this syndrome, which he called syndrome X . Its importance is increasingly recognized in recent years because it predicts cardiovascular disease and the development of diabetes [3-6]. The metabolic syndrome is heterogeneous, so no definition is entirely satisfactory. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a definition in 1998.