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Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Metabolic Syndrome X

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Nutrients, Stress, and Medical Disorders

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Metabolic syndrome X is characterized by abdominal obesity, atherosclerosis, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemias, essential hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease (CHD). Other minor features of metabolic syndrome X include hyperfibrinogenemia, increased plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), low tissue plasminogen activator, nephropathy, microalbuminuria, and hyperuricemia (Das, 2002a). The incidence of metabolic syndrome X is increasing throughout the world. The cause(s) for this increasing incidence is not clear. Because genetics of various populations have not changed in the last 100 yr, it is likely that environmental factors play a major role in the increasing incidence of metabolic syndrome X.

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Das, U.N. (2006). Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Metabolic Syndrome X. In: Yehuda, S., Mostofsky, D.I. (eds) Nutrients, Stress, and Medical Disorders. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-952-4:317

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