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Metabolic Syndrome
| Many sets of diagnostic criteria |
| Critical components |
| Hypertension |
| Central obesity |
| Insulin resistance (hyperinsulinemia) |
| Characteristic dyslipidemia |
| High triglycerides |
| Low high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| Other associations |
| Impaired glucose tolerance; type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Microalbuminuria; chronic renal disease |
| Prothrombotic diathesis |
| Small dense low‐density lipoprotein |
| ↑ Inflammatory markers |
