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'Deadly Quartet' in Women.
The "deadly quartet" of cardiovascular risk factors that characterize the multiple metabolic syndrome--hypertension, obesity, hyperrriglyceridemia, and diabetes--is far more lethal in women than men with known coronary disease.
This was the central finding in a study of more than 6,400 women and men who were followed for 8-10 years after undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Mortality during the follow-up period increased in a stepwise fashion, depending upon how many of the four key elements of the multiple metabolic syndrome (also known as insulin-resistance syndrome) that an individual possessed. Unexpectedly, the increased mortality risk proved far greater in women than in men, Dr. Dennis L. Sprecher reported at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association in ...
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