Abstract
Official Journal of the Endocrine Society of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (SJDEM) publishes original research articles, reviews, and other special features related to diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism in humans and human tissue.
Highlights
Established risk factors for cardiovascular disease include hypertension, smoking, glucose intolerance, obesity and dyslipidaemia, age and family history
The total number of patients enrolled for the study was 831 consisting of 164 (110 males, 54 females) from the Cardiology Clinic, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, and 667 (437 males and 230 females) from the Diabetic Clinic at Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya
As the results indicate there was no statistically significant relationship between the metabolic syndrome (MS) and cardiovascular disease (CVD)
Summary
Established risk factors for cardiovascular disease include hypertension, smoking, glucose intolerance, obesity and dyslipidaemia, age and family history. In a certain category of patients they tend to cluster together more than by chance. This cluster is called the metabolic syndrome (MS) and is considered to increase future risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as well as diabetes (1). Rising incidence of diabetes and obesity is likely to increase the prevalence of the MS.
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