title: [Metabolic syndrome].
abstract: Metabolic syndrome (MS) has become one of the topical health issues in developed countries. This arises from its increasing prevalence in the population linked to poor lifestyles (stress, overeating, lack of physical activity, smoking) and from its proven significantly negative association with the development ofatherosclerosis and thus increased cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Nevertheless, the approaches to effective MS prevention are known as are the ways of treating and preventing MS sequelae. Prerequisite, however, is an early diagnosis of MS that should become integral to common clinical practice of internal as well as general medicine practitioners.
authors.affiliation: II. interní klinika Lékarské fakulty MU a FN u sv. Anny Brno. miroslav.soucek@fnusa.cz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soucek
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy