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Middle Aged Men, Metabolic Syndrome, Stroke Risk
Kurl S, Laukkanen JA, Niskanen L, Laaksonen D, Sivenius J, Nyyssonen K, Salonen JT. Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Stroke in Middle-Aged Men.Stroke. 2006 Feb 9

Finish researchers say that middle aged men with Metabolic Syndrome have twice the risk of suffering from a stroke.

Writing in the medical journal Stroke, researchers say:

"...metabolic syndrome, a clustering of disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism, obesity and abdominal fat distribution, dyslipidemia, and hypertension is associated with cardiovascular diseases.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of metabolic syndrome (with the risk for stroke.)"

What the researchers found was that men with the metabolic syndrome were twice as likely to suffer from a stroke, and at a slightly higher risk than that to suffer from an ischemic stroke (stroke from blockage in a brain artery).

They concluded: "The risk of any stroke is increased in men with metabolic syndrome, in the absence of stroke, diabetes and cardiovascular disease at baseline. Prevention of the metabolic syndrome presents a great challenge for clinicians with respect to stroke."

Kurl S, Laukkanen JA, Niskanen L, Laaksonen D, Sivenius J, Nyyssonen K, Salonen JT. Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Stroke in Middle-Aged Men.Stroke. 2006 Feb 9

Article abstract at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16469958

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