strongly with insulin resistance. Excess upper body fat can accumulate either
intraperitoneally (visceral fat) or subcutaneously. Many investigators claim that excess�…

The initial Guide to the Primary Prevention of Cardiovas-cular Diseases was published in
1997 as an aid to healthcare professionals and their patients without established coronary�…

Abstract The “metabolic syndrome”(MetS) is a clustering of components that reflect
overnutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and resultant excess adiposity. The MetS includes the�…

A cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, which occur
together more often than by chance alone, have become known as the metabolic syndrome�…

The metabolic syndrome is a common metabolic disorder that results from the increasing
prevalence of obesity. The disorder is defined in various ways, but in the near future a new�…

This statement examines the cardiovascular complications of diabetes mellitus and
considers opportunities for their prevention. These complications include coronary heart�…

Obesity is becoming a global epidemic in both children and adults. It is associated with
numerous comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes�…

The prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents has dramatically increased.
There may be vulnerable periods for weight gain during childhood and adolescence that�…

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have
each published guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention: The ADA has issued�…

Despite decades of unequivocal evidence that waist circumference provides both
independent and additive information to BMI for predicting morbidity and risk of death, this�…