BACKGROUND The metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors predictive of cardiovascular diseases. The rising number of obese Americans has increased the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. This study investigated the hypothesis that the incidence of metabolic syndrome is decreased after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. METHODS The charts of all patients who had undergone laparoscopic gast...

BACKGROUND The criteria for best defining the metabolic syndrome (MS), especially in the elderly population, are still little known, and the understanding is increasingly necessary. OBJECTIVE Compare the four MS definition proposals, two official ones (National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III/NCEP-ATPIII and International Diabetes Federation/IDF) and two proposed def...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of infant breast-feeding on cardiovascular risk in young adults. This unique study group involved 158 subjects (eighty-two females) originally collected prospectively at birth in 1975 and followed up to the age of 32 years. Frequent visits during the first year guaranteed the knowledge of the precise duration of breast-feeding. All infants...

The incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) strongly varies by socioeconomic position (SEP), but little is known about the mediating role health behaviours in this association. This study examines associations between SEP measures, education, income and occupational prestige, incident MetS whether are mediated behaviours, including physical activity, smoking, alcohol intake diet quality. A subsa...

In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the AmericanHeart Association (ACC/AHA) published new guidelines for assessing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk1 and for treatment of blood cholesterol to reduce CVD.2 These new guidelines replaced the Adult TreatmentPanel III (ATPIII)guidelines for thedetection,evaluation, and treatment of high blood cholesterol3 that guidedclinical practice for...