Clinicians and public health specialists consider metabolic syndrome as an emerging pandemic and a significant precursor to the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases or heart conditions, which include unhealthy blood vessels, blood clots, and structural problems.2,3 The current global estimates project that around 20–25 percent of adults have metabolic syndrome, making them three times more likely to have a stroke and heart attack and twice as likely to die when compared to people who are free from the syndrome.4,5
Some clinicians still do not recognize the need to refer to it as a metabolic syndrome collectively.6 It may be because the treatment for metabolic syndrome is the same treatment of each risk factor and condition. The best way to manage metabolic syndrome is by losing weight.