title: [Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk].
abstract: Metabolic syndrome points out numerous vascular risk factors clustering together, due to a common mechanistic substratum, visceral obesity and insulin resistance. The definitions of the syndrome allow to identify individuals at risk of vascular disease and diabetes but actually do not add anything to the predictive value of the individual components of the syndrome. Metabolic syndrome could become a target for some specific therapeutic interventions.
authors.affiliation: Clinique d'endocrinologie, maladies métaboliques et nutrition, hôpital de l'Hôtel-Dieu, 44093 Nantes. Bernard.Charbonnel@univ-nantes.fr
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Charbonnel
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012307:Risk Factors