The role of metabolic syndrome in gastroenterology

Authors

KUPKA Tomas DOVRTĚLOVÁ Lenka KUNOVSKÝ Lumír SVOBODA Pavel RYDLO Martin BOJKOVA Martina KIANIČKA Bohuslav DITE Petr

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Central European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Other specializations of internal medicine
Keywords harmonizing metabolic syndrome definition; GERD-idiopathic bowel disease; NASH; pancreatic diseases; steatopancreatitis; Gl-malignancies
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Description Metabolic syndrome, whose harmonized definition has been internationally adopted, including in the Czech Republic, is a set of 5 phenomena which have not been selected randomly. The presence of three of these is positive for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is most frequently associated with diseases of the cardiovascular system/cardiometabolic syndrome. Recently, however, knowledge concerning the possible role of metabolic syndrome has been rapidly increasing, especially if obesity and dyslipidemia are present among its components.

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