Metabolic Syndrome

The world is looking at the “Metabolic Syndrome” with new eyes. Insulin resistance defined it before as one of the essential factors without which you did not have the “Metabolic Syndrome”. But the Japanese study published in Diabetes Care 29: 145-147, 2006 has opened a new question.

It appears that if the patients have insulin resistance they will have increased heart disease. But if you only use waist circumference that is supposed to signal increased brown fat and insulin resistance, you do not necessarily have increased heart disease.

It may be that you just seem to have increased fat, not brown, and that’s all.

Does this signal the “Metabolic Syndrome subgroup B”?