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Metabolic Disease check up:
Testing for metabolic disease

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Evolve Healthcare Metabolic Disease check up:
Testing for metabolic disease

Metabolic syndrome, also known as Obesity Syndrome or Insulin Resistance Syndrome, refers to a number of risk factors that make a person highly susceptible to serious conditions such as type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease.

Your physician may suspect that you, or a loved one, has metabolic syndrome if you’re largely inactive and have excess weight in your abdomen region. The National Institutes of Health follow a certain criteria for diagnosing metabolic syndrome. Generally, they look for people who have (or are taking medication to control) three or more of the following traits:

A large waistline with a circumference of over 35 inches (89 cm) for women and 40 inches (102 cm) for men
Elevated blood pressure of 130/85 mm Hg or higher
High fasting blood sugar of 100 mg/dL or higher
Reduced HDL (high-density lipoprotein) “good” cholesterol, which could be less than 50 mg/dL in women or 40 mg/dL in men
High triglyceride level of 150 mg/dL or higher (a type of fat in blood)

That said, your physician will still need to perform both laboratory and non-laboratory tests to establish the diagnosis.

The recommended laboratory tests include:

Lipid Profile - Used to measure the triglycerides, HDL, LDL, and VLDL. If the triglycerides level is considerably high, your physician will need to perform a direct measurement of the LDL.
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) - Used to establish glucose control and diagnosing diabetes
Glucose - Glucose tests help to establish whether a person has impaired glucose tolerance or reduced ability to process glucose, which is essentially a diabetes test. This test can be performed before or after meals, or in a series of tests at timed intervals.

Other laboratory tests may be ordered to provide additional information. These include:

Urine Albumin - Recommended by the WHO to help monitor diabetics and check for early signs of kidney disease
C-peptide - Used to check your insulin production by measuring the amount of C-peptide in a urine or blood sample
hs-CRP - Used to measure low levels of inflammation in a cardiac risk assessment
sdLDL - Used to check the number of small low-density lipoprotein molecules in a patient’s risk assessment for atherosclerosis

Non-laboratory tests include:

Waist circumference and weight measurement - To check abdominal obesity
Blood pressure - As an indicator for hypertension
BMI (body mass index) - Used to check for excess body weight or obesity

To treat metabolic syndrome, your physician may recommend various lifestyle changes, including exercise and diet adjustment, to promote weight loss, as well as drug treatment. Please visit Evolve Healthcare for a personalized treatment plan.

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