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Primary Care Reports – December 23, 2002
December 23, 2002
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The Insulin Resistance Syndrome — Syndrome X
The quintet of abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, abnormal glucose metabolism, and coagulopathy has been called syndrome X or metabolic syndrome. Some have referred to this grouping as the insulin resistance syndrome, the obesity dyslipidemia syndrome, and the deadly quartet.