Technorati Tags: Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes, American Diabetes AssociationThe world's leading diabetes organizations Thursday challenged the value of labeling patients as having "metabolic syndrome," a diagnosis based on a cluster of risk factors known to be bad for the heart.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes said in a joint statement that the syndrome is ill defined, built on sketchy evidence and could distract doctors from focusing on more established heart-disease risks...
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Friday, August 26, 2005
"Metabolic Syndrome Doesn't Exist"
In USA Today: