title: Focus on lifestyle change and the metabolic syndrome.
abstract: The National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III identifies persons with multiple metabolic risk factors or "metabolic syndrome" as candidates for intensified therapeutic lifestyle changes. This article reviews the important role of weight reduction,diet, and exercise in improving the metabolic syndrome and its risk factors of abdominal obesity, impaired fasting glucose,dyslipidemia, and coagulation/inflammatory factors. The article also provides practical strategies.
authors.affiliation: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 211 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 1050, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. n-stone@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Neil J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior