Metabolic Syndrome

Premenopausal women who eat more curry and postmenopausal women with a higher daily vitamin B2 intake are less likely to have metabolic syndrome, according to a study of women in Korea published in Menopause.

Adults employed in shift work outside of a normal daytime schedule have a greater risk for metabolic syndrome, according to findings published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.

Researchers have developed an algorithm tailored to age that can predict the risk for incident metabolic syndrome among young people with psychosis, according to study results published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

A retrospective cohort study published in Kidney Medicine identified an association between higher BMI and a greater risk of developing “a low serum bicarbonate,” an identifier for metabolic acidosis.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted various areas of cardiology care and reversed many patients’ positive lifestyle choices, which will lead to an increase in chronic diseases, according to experts.

Adherence to guideline-recommended physical activity or diet conferred benefits for cardiometabolic health later in life; however, adherence to both may confer the greatest risk reductions, researchers reported.

Results showed patients with metabolic syndrome were more likely to have complications after reverse shoulder arthroplasty, despite no increase in complications, reoperation or revision surgery in primary shoulder arthroplasty.

Odds for severe COVID-19 outcomes were increased for patients with metabolic syndrome, , according to a study published in the Journal of Diabetes.

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a lifelong endocrine, metabolic and reproductive disorder estimated to affect 5% to 15% of women in the United States, depending on how the condition is characterized.

Health care inequity, changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the future of diabetes care were just some of the topics discussed by experts in Endocrine Today’s 2020 cover stories.