Metabolic syndrome

The monograph is devoted to one of the leading problems of modern healthcare - metabolic syndrome. The historical aspects of the study of the metabolic syndrome and associated diseases of the cardiovascular system, diagnostic criteria, epidemiological data are presented, the role of factors such as intestinal microbia, oxidative stress, and dietary behavior in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome are analyzed. The effect of metabolic syndrome on bronchopulmonary pathology, gastroenterological pathology, sexual dysfunctions is considered. Promising methods of examining patients with metabolic syndrome, modern approaches to therapy are described. The monograph will be interesting to doctors of therapeutic specialties, scientists, teachers, graduate students, and medical universities