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9th European Congress of Endocrinology

Plenary Lectures

Metabolic syndrome: a cultural exercise or clinical entity?

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The metabolic syndrome: a cultural exercise or a clinical entity?

Prato Stefano Del

MS encompasses a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors, and is a common, age-related disorder mainly driven by the increasing prevalence of obesity and it has been claimed to be a powerful predictor of cardiovascular disease. However, the existence of such a syndrome has been recently challenged on the basis of uncertainty of the pathogenetic mechanism(s), too many definitions and diagnostic criteria, doubt about any advantage as compared to existing risk calculation en...