The Metabolic Syndrome,Its Constituents and the Risk of Stroke / 国际脑血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a general name for a group of metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular diseases,and its major constituents include hyperglycemia,hypertension,lipid abnormality and central obesity.Because MetS portly overlaps the risk factors of stroke,and thus it determines that MetS is closely related with stroke.No matter the interaction of all individual risk factor or multiple risk factors may affect the occurrence and development of stroke.