Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. People with metabolic syndrome are twice as likely to die from, and three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome. People with metabolic syndrome have a five-fold greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Up to 80% of the 200 million people with diabetes globally will die of cardiovascular disease. This puts metabolic syndrome and diabetes way ahead of HIV/AIDS in morbidity and mortality terms yet the problem is not as well recognised.

  • Lipid metabolism
  • Diabetes self-management tools
  • New discoveries and emerging therapies for type 1 and 2 diabetes
  • Advances and strategies in drug development
  • Stem cell research in the diabetes space
  • Long noncoding and microRNAs and metabolism

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