Question 178 · LEK · Metabolic syndrome
The defined components of the metabolic syndrome do not include the criterion of:
- A. serum/plasma triglyceride concentration > 150 mg/dL.
- B. serum/plasma total cholesterol concentration > 250 mg/dL.
- C. serum/plasma fasting glucose concentration > 100 mg/dL or the treatment of hyperglycemia.
- D. WHR > 94 cm in males, > 80 cm in females.
- E. systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure > 130/85 mmHg or the current treatment of hypertension.
Hint
List the five components: waist, two lipid parameters, blood pressure and glucose; which lipid measure is not among them?
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