Amazing application where you will be able to see medical images related to Metabolic syndrome in great detail.
Soon available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
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Perfect for Doctor Patient communication. Keep in your pocket a huge database of metabolic syndrome images.
All images and text are in English and in Spanish
Contents include:
General aspects
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease
The metabolic syndrome: definition
Epidemiology: incidence and prevalence
Epidemiology: mortality and morbidity
Insulin resistance
Biological markers of the metabolic syndrome
Complications of the metabolic syndrome
Components and pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome
Obesity: definition
Visceral obesity
Association between visceral obesity, insulin resistance and manifestations of the metabolic syndrome
Hypertension
Hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes
Dyslipidemia in the metabolic syndrome
Dyslipidemia and atherogenesis
Treatment
Lifestyle changes and treatment of risk factors
Physical activity
Lipid-lowering drugs
Therapeutic goals in dyslipidemia and statins
Rosuvastatin and the metabolic syndrome