metabolic syndrome

(MedPage Today) -- Metabolic syndrome biomarkers seen soon after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center collapse predicted later decline in lung function, according to a nested case-control study of New York City rescue workers.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Incidence rates of hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma have increased in the US This population-based study publishing in the August issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, found that metabolic syndrome significantly increases risk of developing these primary liver cancers.

Older people with large waistlines, high blood pressure, and other risk factors for a condition called metabolic syndrome may be at greater peril for experiencing memory loss, a new French study suggests.

Having psoriasis appears to double the risk that a person will also have a dangerous clustering of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes known as metabolic syndrome, a new study shows.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) According to a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study, published online March 30 in the International Journal of Obesity, mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking had normal metabolic profiles.

In contrast, mice that ate a more carbohydrate-rich diet in the morning and consumed a high-fat meal at the end of the day saw increased weight gain, adiposity, glucose intolerance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is an "epidemic waiting to happen" among liver transplant recipients, largely as a result of their increasing likelihood of survival, a review shows.

Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are candidates for liver transplants, but may be at increased risk of complications from metabolic syndrome, researchers say.

(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.

WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) -- Patients with hepatitis C infection are more likely to die from the condition if they also suffer from one or more components of metabolic syndrome, a researcher said.