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Symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Metabolic syndrome is a polysymptomatic condition, and the patient's complaints depend on the presence and severity of the clinical components.
Symptoms of metabolic syndrome include:
- periodic headaches (due to hypertension);
- weakness and rapid fatigue;
- shortness of breath with little physical exertion, and with moderate forms - and at rest;
- appoe in a dream,
- chest pain (due to coronary artery disease);
- itching of the skin, maceration of the skin in the inguinal and axillary areas;
- increased appetite (due to hyperinsulinemia);
- excess body weight with predominant abdominal adipose tissue deposition;
- dryness in ptu, thirst, polyuria (due to type 2 diabetes).
In addition to characteristic obesity and metabolic abnormalities, frequent clinical manifestations of the metabolic syndrome are: IHD, angina, impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes mellitus. Even with unbroken glucose tolerance of individuals who are not overweight, the presence of insulin resistance and hyperglycemia contributes to the development of hypertriglyceridemia, increased LDL, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and increases the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases.