Influence of the Metabolic Syndrome Versus the Sum of Its Individual Components on Left Ventricular Geometry in Young Adults (from the Bogalusa Heart Study)
July 2nd, 2009 Posted by: admin
Publication year: 2009
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 104, Issue 1, 1 July 2009, Pages 69-73
Dharmendrakumar A., Patel , Sathanur R., Srinivasan , Wei, Chen , Gerald S., Berenson
Current preventive cardiology guidelines strongly recommend identification of metabolic syndrome (MS), a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors, in clinical practice. These MS risk factors, individually or in a cluster, adversely alter left ventricular (LV) geometry. However, it is still unclear whether MS predicts risk, above and beyond its individual risk factors, for abnormal LV geometry. This aspect was examined in 830 asymptomatic patients (mean age 37 years, 69% whites, 41% men) as a part of the Bogalusa Heart Study. Patients with MS (as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III) showed adverse levels of echocardiographic parameters…
