Categorización del síndrome metabólico de acuerdo con las variables que lo constituyen y su relación con la insulino-resistencia / Consensus definition of the metabolic syndrome and diagnostic criteria for identification and its relationshipo with the insulin-resistance syndrome

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the cardiovascular prevention has found a new clinical tool: the metabolic syndrome (MS). Arised in the observation of associations between risk factors, it is recognized as the clinical manifestation of insulin resistance. In the course of time, it was demonstrated that the presence of MS possess a prognostic value to predict death, nonfatal acute myocardial infarction, vascular stroke and the development of diabetes... The relationshipo to insulin resistance and diagnostic criteria for identification of the metabolic syndrome are given in the article.