title: Evaluation of lipid peroxidation and antioxidants' status in metabolic syndrome.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of physical conditions and metabolic abnormalities, commonly occurring together, that increases an individual's risk for development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases. Oxidative stress is associated with diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases while the role of oxidative stress in pathogenesis of MS is not clearly defined.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The study aims to find out the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in faculty and staff members at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal and to evaluate oxidative stress levels in subjects with metabolic syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  118 healthy participants working at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal were selected at random for this cross-sectional study and blood samples were collected for the estimation of the following biochemical analytes; fasting glucose; triglycerides; total cholesterol; high density lipoprotein cholesterol; Albumin; uric acid; Bilirubin; Malondialdehyde; Catalase; Glutathione peroxidase; Superoxide Dismutase; Glutathione; vitamin C; and lastly vitamin E. Results In this cross-sectional study, 39% subjects were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome , particularly in sedentary subjects. There was no difference in oxidative stress except significant rises in serum uric acid levels and catalase activity in subjects diagnosed with metabolic syndrome .
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is higher without oxidative stress in this study, which suggests that oxidative stress does not contribute to the pathogenesis of MS in otherwise healthy subjects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aryal
authors.forename: B K L
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baral
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009390:Nepal / Q000453:epidemiology; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000502:physiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants