Indicators of cardiovascular risk in metabolic syndrome: long term follow-up in Italian patients.

CONCLUSION: The follow-up data of a series of Italian patients with and without MetS, clearly indicates that the former have a raised cIMT and their arterial IMT progression is greater and the presence of a larger WHtR is apparently linked to a higher incidence of CV events.
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Source: Current Vascular Pharmacology - January 25, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Mombelli G, Pavanello C, Castelnuovo S, Bosisio R, Simonelli S, Pazzucconi F, Sirtori CR Tags: Curr Vasc Pharmacol Source Type: research