Re: Re: SkinSterols predict metabolic syndrome

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I wonder how many DON'T get:

"Metabolic syndrome is defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program - Adult Treatment Panel III as the presence of at least three out of five key risk factors. The greater the number of risk factors, the more at risk a patient is. The five risk factors are:- Increased waist circumference (greater than 102 cm for men; greater than 88 cm for women)- Elevated levels of triglycerides (blood fats)- Low levels of HDL (good) cholesterol- Blood pressure (greater than or equal to 130/85 mmHg)- Impaired fasting glucose (insulin resistance)"

I think all I needed was to heed my friend's warning in 1976 that 126/76 indicated hypertension. I was in top physical condition - why would I heed that?

BTW, after I got treatable HTN, the doc measured my CRP very low. I had gained weight. And I've had low HDL since they started measuring it.

We know we'll get fat and chances are 3 of those will exist.

What we need is a reliable test for prostate cancer and ovarian cancer.

Regards.

[ ] Re: SkinSterols predict metabolic syndrome

Hi folks:Not ONLY to be the devil's advocate here ........... but the first thing to come to mind for me about this study is to ask whether they made sure they were not failing to distinguish the horse from the cart. Perhaps they did not have this problem, but may not the horse be the waist circumference? And everything else the cart?And by that I mean that I would not be at all surprised to find that all their other data, including their skin test and hsCRP, are simply a function of the degree of obesity. In which case this study would not be adding any new information beyond the fact that the skin test is ALSO correlated with all the other data that we all here know result from obesity, the cause of metabolic syndrome.If we saw the full study we might be able to resolve this question.Perhaps on the weekend I will look for it. Or email the author and ask the question. (He will not like the question so I probably will not get an answer. But no answer sometimes is all one needs in a case like this).If anyone has the full text of the study and sends it to me, I promise to read it from end to end and comment on it next week.Rodney.

[Guest guest]

I wonder how many DON'T get:

"Metabolic syndrome is defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program - Adult Treatment Panel III as the presence of at least three out of five key risk factors. The greater the number of risk factors, the more at risk a patient is. The five risk factors are:- Increased waist circumference (greater than 102 cm for men; greater than 88 cm for women)- Elevated levels of triglycerides (blood fats)- Low levels of HDL (good) cholesterol- Blood pressure (greater than or equal to 130/85 mmHg)- Impaired fasting glucose (insulin resistance)"

I think all I needed was to heed my friend's warning in 1976 that 126/76 indicated hypertension. I was in top physical condition - why would I heed that?

BTW, after I got treatable HTN, the doc measured my CRP very low. I had gained weight. And I've had low HDL since they started measuring it.

We know we'll get fat and chances are 3 of those will exist.

What we need is a reliable test for prostate cancer and ovarian cancer.

Regards.

[ ] Re: SkinSterols predict metabolic syndrome

Hi folks:Not ONLY to be the devil's advocate here ........... but the first thing to come to mind for me about this study is to ask whether they made sure they were not failing to distinguish the horse from the cart. Perhaps they did not have this problem, but may not the horse be the waist circumference? And everything else the cart?And by that I mean that I would not be at all surprised to find that all their other data, including their skin test and hsCRP, are simply a function of the degree of obesity. In which case this study would not be adding any new information beyond the fact that the skin test is ALSO correlated with all the other data that we all here know result from obesity, the cause of metabolic syndrome.If we saw the full study we might be able to resolve this question.Perhaps on the weekend I will look for it. Or email the author and ask the question. (He will not like the question so I probably will not get an answer. But no answer sometimes is all one needs in a case like this).If anyone has the full text of the study and sends it to me, I promise to read it from end to end and comment on it next week.Rodney.