Chronic inflammation and the metabolic syndrome

Abstract

Metabolic syndrome is a disease associated with systemic inflammation. At present, metabolic syndrome is understood chiefly as an abdominal obesity with complications.

Nevertheless, metabolic syndrome is most certainly also induced by an inflammation of a different origin.

Keywords

• Metabolic syndrome
• type 2 diabetes mellitus
• hypertension
• paradontosis
• C-reactive protein
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• rheumatoid arthritis
• psoriasis