| Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD |
Roman Bystrianyk wrote:
> http://www.healthsentinel.com/news....ist_item&id=381
>
> Maggie Fox, " Syndrome Predicts Heart Disease in Healthy Adults",
> Reuters UK, November 8, 2004,
> Link: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticl...althNews&storyI
>
> Middle-aged adults who do not yet have heart disease but have a
> spectrum of symptoms called metabolic syndrome are very likely to also
> have clogged arteries, researchers said on Monday.
>
> The findings suggest primary care doctors should be screening patients
> for the signs of heart disease early and often, the researchers told a
> meeting of the American Heart Association.
>
> Then patients can begin to exercise and eat better to prevent heart
> disease, they said.
>
> The association defines metabolic syndrome as having three of five
> risk factors -- a top blood pressure reading of more than 130, a blood
> glucose level of 120 or more, which can indicate risk for diabetes,
> high triglyceride levels, low levels of high density lipoprotein or
> "good" cholesterol, and a large waist.
>
> Association president-elect Dr. Robert Eckel says 27 percent of the
> U.S. population has metabolic syndrome -- a relatively new term
> describing a condition that doctors agree shows a predisposition to
> heart disease.
>
> Dr. Kwame Akosah and colleagues at the Gundersen Lutheran Health
> System in La Crosse, Wisconsin, studied 246 adults with an average age
> of 53, looking for the signs of metabolic syndrome.
>
> None of the volunteers had any obvious symptoms of heart disease and
> they all qualified as having at low risk of heart disease using
> standard measures.
>
> Of the people they studied, 75 had metabolic syndrome, Akosah told a
> meeting of the Heart Association.
>
> The researchers also did an ultrasound scan of the carotid artery.
> These scans can find a thickening of this artery that shows whether
> the blood vessels are becoming clogged in a process called
> atherosclerosis.
>
> Of the 75 people with metabolic syndrome, 75 percent also had the
> beginnings of a clogged carotid artery, his team found.
>
> "If somebody had metabolic syndrome, in spite of a low (heart) risk
> category, that person had a greater than 2.5 times risk of having
> atherosclerosis present," Akosah said.
>
> EARLIER CHECKS
>
> Many adults do not start getting standard physicals until the age of
> 40. The heart experts said the studies show Americans should see their
> doctors earlier and get blood glucose tests as well as blood pressure
> and cholesterol tests.
>
> While glucose is a test traditionally used to diagnose diabetes or
> pre-diabetes, it is clear that high glucose levels also point to a
> risk of heart disease, they said.
>
> In a second study, Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones of Northwestern University
> in Chicago looked at statistics from a study of 2,400 adults that
> began nearly 20 years ago.
>
> He found that people whose weight stayed stable were much less likely
> to develop metabolic syndrome than people who gained 15 pounds (7 kg)
> or more over 15 years.
>
> "Only 18 percent of our volunteers were able to maintain a stable
> weight," he said in an interview.
>
> They measured body mass index, a comparison of height to weight used
> globally to measure obesity.
>
> "Even if you started lean, if your BMI increased over the next 15
> years, you had very steady changes in all the risk factors,"
> Lloyd-Jones told a news conference.
>
> For instance, in men whose BMI went up over the 15 years,
> triglycerides, an important component of cholesterol, went up an
> average of 3 points a year. Men whose weight stayed stable gained only
> 1 point a year.
>
> After 15 years, only 3.6 percent of the volunteers who had maintained
> their weight had developed metabolic syndrome, compared to 18 percent
> of those who gained weight.
>
> Lloyd-Jones said metabolic syndrome is something everyone can prevent.
> "It's all about calories. It is definitely a lifestyle issue," he
> said.
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