The role of metabolic syndrome in gastroenterology
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Central European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
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| 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. |