Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To determine the relationship between metabolic syndrome (MS) and cognitive decline in people over 60 years age.Methods: The age of the participants were between 60 and 89 years old (71.71±6.58). According to NCEP ATP III criteria 93 had MS and 47 had not. Cognitive performance was determined with the use of standardized mini mental test and the mini mental scores (MMS) of the two groups were compared. Apart from the MS we investigated th...