title: Evaluation of the degree of vascular inflammation in patients with metabolic syndrome.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is defined as a set of cardiovascular risk factors related to visceral obesity and insulin resistance that lead to an increase in general mortality, especially cardiovascular. The inflammatory markers are considered emergent risk factors and can be potentially used in the clinical stratification of cardiovascular diseases, establishing prognostic values.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aims at evaluating which components of the MS present an increase of IL-6 and hs-CRP, identifying the marker that better expresses the degree of inflammation and which isolate component presents a higher degree of interference on the studied inflammatory markers, in order to identify other important risk factors when determining arterial inflammation.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 87 hypertensive, diabetic and dyslipidemic patients were selected, aged 26 to 85 years, who met the necessary criteria for the positive diagnosis of MS. The patients were assessed through 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and underwent hs-CRP and IL-6 measurements, among other metabolic variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients that presented CRP > 0.3mg/dl showed a significant correlation (p<0.05) with abdominal perimeter >102/88 cm in 83.7%, glycemia > 110mg/dl in 88% and BMI > 30kg/m(2) in 60.5% of the studied individuals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We concluded that the CRP was the inflammatory marker with the highest expression regarding the studied variables, with smoking, albuminuria, previous personal history of cardiopathy, BMI, abdominal perimeter and hyperglycemia being the ones with the highest statistical significance. Interleukin-6 did not present a correlation with any of the studied variables.
authors: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. asmjunqueira@uol.com.br
authors: Adriana Silva Monteiro
authors: AS
authors: Junqueira
authors: Luiz José Martins
authors: LJ
authors: Romêo Filho
authors: Camillo de Léllis Carneiro
authors: Cde L
authors: Junqueira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000032:analysis*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018836:Inflammation Mediators / Q000097:blood*; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000097:blood*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D018836:Inflammation Mediators; D015850:Interleukin-6; D002097:C-Reactive Protein