metabolic syndrome

noun

1. Pathology.,  a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

metabolic syndrome

noun

1. a condition associated with obesity including symptoms such as glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and raised blood pressure, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes

Word History and Origins

Origin of metabolic syndrome¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Diet is a major driver of diabetes and heart disease, so an association with higher cardiovascular mortality is not unexpected, said Victor Wenze Zhong, the lead author of the peer-reviewed study in Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews.

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Rates of metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions including obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure — increased from 26% of people, to nearly 38%.

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“She had all the symptoms and signs of metabolic syndrome in her and none of her doctors addressed any of them.”

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We’ve long known of a link between osteoarthritis and metabolic syndrome related to obesity, but the nature of this link didn’t start to become clear until the discoveries of the past decade that underlie the invention of Ozempic, and more recently the anecdotal reports of patients like Coviello’s.

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Now we’re learning that in osteoarthritis associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome causes inflammation by activating small proteins called cytokines that activate or calm down the immune system, right in the synovium area — the space in a joint, your knee for example, bringing white blood cells, or macrophages, rushing in, another sign of inflammation.

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