Chapter 9, Metabolic syndrome

Question 1

Metabolic syndrome is classified by the National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel as a cluster of five chronic conditions, which?

Answer 1

Obesity, diabetes, lipid problems (high triglyceride, low HDL), hypertension, cardiovascular disease.

Question 2

Are males or females with metabolic syndrome more likely to have a nonalcholic fatty liver disease? And by how much?

Answer 2

Males, by seven times