Metabolic Syndrome Players Deadly When Combined
(HealthDayNews, 12/16/03)

John Ninomiya of the University of California at San Diego and associates examined the health implications of the 5 symptoms of metabolic syndrome--hypertension, elevated triglycerides, low HDL ("good" cholesterol), insulin resistance and abdominal obesity. The scientists used data collected between 1988 and 1994 from 10,357 American adult participants in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The investigators found that each of the first 4 characteristics occurring alone raised the risk for vascular disease, but that having various combinations of the 5 further magnified the risk