Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The prevalence of non-communicable disorders such as metabolic syndrome (MetS) is high in developing countries. MetS is a disorder of energy utilisation and storage, diagnosed by a co-occurrence of three out of five of the following medical conditions: abdominal (central) obesity, elevated blood pressure, elevated fasting plasma glucose, high serum triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol levels. The present review aims to discover the genetic variant reported in a...