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Pratley RE. Metabolic syndrome: why the controversy?. Curr Diab Rep. 2007;7(1):56-9doi: 10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x.
Pratley, R. E. (2007). Metabolic syndrome: why the controversy?. Current diabetes reports, 7(1), 56-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x
Pratley, Richard E. "Metabolic syndrome: why the controversy?." Current diabetes reports vol. 7,1 (2007): 56-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x
Pratley RE. Metabolic syndrome: why the controversy?. Curr Diab Rep. 2007 Feb;7(1):56-9. doi: 10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x. PMID: 17348123.
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Curr Diab Rep. 2007 Feb;7(1):56-9. doi: 10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x.

Metabolic syndrome: why the controversy?.

Current diabetes reports

Richard E Pratley

Affiliations

  1. Diabetes and Metabolism Translational Medicine Unit, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05465, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 17348123 DOI: 10.1007/s11892-007-0010-x

Abstract

As originally conceived, the metabolic syndrome defined a clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors with insulin resistance as the common, underlying pathophysiologic determinant. The definition of the syndrome has evolved since then, with several groups proposing somewhat differing definitions. Partly, this has been motivated by efforts to make the syndrome a clinically useful entity. However, recent articles have called the clinical use of the metabolic syndrome into question. In this review, some of these concerns and counterarguments for the continued use of the metabolic syndrome are reviewed.

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