Kontakt 2007, 9(1):164-167 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2007.022

Problems of metabolic syndromeBiomedicine

Věra Adámková

Institut klinické a experimentální medicíny, Praha

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra klinických oborů

The concept of metabolic syndrome (MS) is frequently being ever more encountered in the special literature and this is unfortunately a problem of the actual need and not of fashion trends.
The occurrence of this disease has been increasing in the recent years in industrially developed countries at extremely rapid rate and it becomes a focus of interest in a number of medical disciplines, such as endocrinology, diabetology, obesitology, preventive cardiology, etc.
Based on the examination of a 1% randomised sample of the Czech population of 25 to 64 years of age, metabolic syndrome was found in 25% of women and 32% of men in 2001.
Metabolic syndrome results from the concurrent action of several basic risk factors.
Attempts of specialists to unify pathological symptoms and syndromes under a common denominator are demonstrated by the fact that conditions, today collectively named metabolic syndrome, were referred to in the literature in the course of the last 50 years under different names (e.g. hyperplastic syndrome, syndrome 5 P, hyperplastic obesity, hypertonic-metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, civilisation syndrome). Criteria defined in 2005 are currently being used for the metabolic syndrome diagnostics.
Metabolic syndrome complications exert considerably feared impacts on the health condition, since it is known that over 70% of patients with myocardium infarction formerly experienced a certain stage of metabolic syndrome. A further problem of the health care in all the developed countries is the predicted increase in the occurrence of diabetes mellitus in the future decades, since persons with genetic predisposition to insulin resistance having excess energy intake and unsuitable life style have also frequently the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. General obesity is a necessary factor for the metabolic syndrome diagnostics. Obesity becomes a clear endangerment to the health condition worldwide, because 315 million inhabitants of our planet suffer from obesity based on an estimate. The metabolic syndrome treatment must be complex and it is impossible without adhering to directions for non-pharmacological lowering of risk factors.

Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, impaired fast glucose

Received: April 16, 2007; Accepted: May 11, 2007; Published: June 15, 2007  Show citation