Posts Tagged ‘Metabolic Syndrome’
The Growing Problem of Visceral Fat
the measurement of waist circumference is the biggest indicator of the presence of visceral fat, a parameter that is considered more related to metabolic syndrome, as par excellence of overweight and obesity, body mass index.
This debate emerged a comparison was made between a model with a BMI of 19 and a sumo wrestler (false thin) and showing that visceral fat was lower in the second. Moreover, “this type of fat with liposuction does not disappear; it is treated with diet, exercise and drug therapy.”
According Monereo, “the treatment of visceral fat is important for patients with a slightly overweight, and that greatly enhance metabolism.”
Another point that was addressed in the debate was the role of the pharmacist. The dietitian and member of the Spanish Society of Community Pharmacy (SEFAC), Ana Isabel Serrano highlighted the efforts being made to train your group in addressing obesity and overweight because, as noted, may be the solution for people who do not believe they have a problem and thus avoid going to the doctor.
In this regard, the pharmaceutical stressed that “we must educate and raise awareness of the importance of this problem from the pharmacy.”
However, there was some controversy with respect to products sold in pharmacies, some solutions called “miracle” anti-obesity. Although participants recognized that it is logical that the pharmacist sells a product approved, it was emphasized that the patient should be aware that drugs or treatments are not useful for weight loss. “There is only one drug that is sold at drugstores without a prescription for this problem: ‘There’ (orlistat),” he said Ana Isabel.
Features and Frequency Of Metabolic Syndrome
Features
Metabolic syndrome is a group of disorders that demonstrate that the organization is in a state of imbalance. Obesity, which is the starting point of this syndrome, particularly abdominal fat causes insulin resistance (insulin is less effective in controlling blood sugar in the blood), increased rates leptin (a hormone secreted by adipose tissue and satiety control), and activates the renin-angiotensin system of the kidney. All these reactions lead to vascular disease, high blood pressure and a pre-diabetic, with an increased risk of stroke and myocardial infarction. It is therefore not just a bon vivant of obesity, but a syndrome of concern requiring aggressive treatment.
Frequency
The syndrome is more common among adult men and in women after menopause. It involves between 40 and 60% of the adult population by country. It is therefore a very common syndrome, dangerous, whose holders are usually far from aware of its seriousness, because abdominal obesity is often considered a normal phenomenon of aging. Indeed abdominal obesity, easily diagnosed by measuring the lap belt is the first sign of metabolic imbalances in the body and the signal it’s time to diet and exercise.
Metabolic Syndrome
The metabolic syndrome largely replaces the traditional “Obesity good living” and “overweight“, which implies a kind of joviality and irresponsibility before the illness, the doctor was often difficult to take seriously.

It is quite otherwise with the metabolic syndrome, which includes a set of symptoms and is a warning of the imminent onset of more serious illnesses such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Speaking of metabolic syndrome (or syndrome X as it was dubbed at its definition in the 1980s), it must meet three of five criteria, such as increased abdominal circumference (abdominal obesity or visceral) The increase in blood triglyceride levels, lower good cholesterol (HDL) cholesterol, increased blood pressure and blood glucose.
It is therefore a syndrome which includes abdominal obesity, hypertension, disorders of blood fat (cholesterol and triglycerides) and hyperglycemia. Speaking of metabolic syndrome, it must have at least three of these five symptoms, the most common are abdominal obesity and hypertension.