Author name: administrador Sicor

Metabolic syndrome is a clinical condition that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and is related to insulin resistance. Although consensus statements establish the need for specific waist circumference cutoff points for each country to identify subjects with metabolic syndrome, these had not been defined in Colombia. This study defines the waist circumference cutoff points […]

Several studies have demonstrated that insulin resistance (IR) is associated with increased sympathetic drive, reduced cardiac performance, and diminished local vasodilatory response. However, most of them focused on obesity or type 2 diabetes (DM). Click here to view the article.