Obesity and Diabetes Risk Factors
Research reports from Federico II University provide new insights into obesity and diabetes risk factors
Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, September 23rd, 2007
New investigation results, "Clusters of metabolic risk factors predict cardiovascular events in hypertension with target-organ damage: the LIFE study," are detailed in a study published in Journal of Human Hypertension. According to a study from Naples, Italy, "The relation of metabolic syndrome (MetS) with cardiovascular outcome may be less evident when preclinical cardiovascular disease is present. We explored, in a post hoc analysis, whether MetS predicts cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy (ECG-LVH) in the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint (LIFE) reduction in hypertension study."
"MetS was...
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