Biblioteca Virtual en Salud português | english Contacto Biblioteca Virtual en Salud Department of Health 'Making Life Better' is the strategic framework for public health. It is designed to provide direction for policies and actions to improve the health and well being of people in Northern Ireland and to reduce health inequalities. Jump to table of contents Pathophysiology of dyslipidaemia in the metabolic syndrome + Author Affiliations Correspondence to: Dr G D Kolovou Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, 356 Sygrou Avenue 176 74 Athens, Greece; genkolovou@mail.gr Received 15 June 2004 Accepted 1 November 2004 Abstract The insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome is characterised by the variable coexistence of hyperinsulinaemia, obesity, dyslipidaemia, and hypertension. The pathogenesis of the syndrome has multiple origins, but obesity and sedentary lifestyle coupled with diet and still largely unknown genetic factors clearly interact to produce the syndrome. Dyslipidaemia, the hallmark of the metabolic syndrome, includes increased flux of free fatty acids, raised triglycerides, apolipoprotein B, and small dense low density lipoprotein, and decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol.
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