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Metabolic Syndrome: Information for Professionals What is the metabolic syndrome? The metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of metabolic risk factors in one person. They include: Central obesity (excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen) Atherogenic dyslipidemia (blood fat disorders — mainly high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol — that foster plaque buildups in artery walls) Insulin resistance or glucose intolerance (the body cant properly use insulin or blood sugar) Prothrombotic state (eg, high fibrinogen or plasminogen activator inhibitor [1] in the blood) Raised blood pressure (130/85 mmHg or higher) Proinflammatory state (eg, elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in the blood) The underlying causes of this syndrome are overweight/obesity, physical inactivity and genetic factors. People with the metabolic syndrome are at increased risk of coronary heart disease, other diseases related to plaque buildups in artery walls (eg, stroke and peripheral vascular disease) and type 2 diabetes.

Francesco Rubino, MD, is Chief of Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Assistant Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rubino is a world-renowned pioneer of surgery for type 2 diabetes,an emerging speciality which holds great promise for diabetics– for the first time bringing diabetes type 2 into long term remission. Dr. Rubino is heading up the Diabetes Surgery Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, the first academic-based Diabetes Surgery Center

www.ihealthtube.com Dr. Todd Ferguson explains how having metabolic syndrome can lead to diabetes, and how to prevent it from happening. See more videos like this on the ihealthtube website.

Could diabetes be in your bones? Link between metabolic disease, bone mass; Breakdown of bone keeps blood sugar in check
Our bones have much greater influence on the rest of our bodies than they are often given credit for, according to two new studies. Both studies offer new insights into the interplay between bone and blood sugar, based on signals sent via insulin and a bone-derived hormone known as osteocalcin.