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Metabolic Syndrome

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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of interrelated cardiometabolic risk factors — central obesity, atherogenic dyslipidaemia, hypertension and dysglycaemia — that together more than double the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and confer a roughly five-fold higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). It is also called syndrome X, the insulin resistance syndrome, or Reaven's syndrome (a

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