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(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Risk factors for metabolic syndrome, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated blood lipid levels, can increase a person's healthcare costs nearly 1.6-fold, or about $2,000 per year.

For each additional risk factor those costs rise an average of 24 percent, according to an illuminating article in a recent issue of Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc.