SYNDROME X HARD-TO-DETECT METABOLIC DISORDER UPS RISK FOR HEART DISEASE, STROKE.(Lifestyle)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI) | February 26, 2001| | Copyright

Your total cholesterol may appear normal, your blood glucose level may be just a tad on the high side, and your blood pressure registers just a little high. But these seemingly harmless factors occurring together could mean you have insulin resistance - known as Syndrome X, a mysterious-sounding constellation of medical features that put a person at high risk for heart disease and stroke.

What to call the condition - Syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, metabolic syndrome - is debated in medical circles. Dr. Gerald Reaven, an emeritus professor of medicine at ...

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