The Perfect Storm

Metabolic Syndrome is a term that sounds like a scary illness or disease. Actually, metabolic syndrome is a cluster of high risk factors that together increase a person’s chances of cardiovascular problems. Just as wind can be damaging alone, add in heavy rain and lightning and you know the severe weather is going to bring down trees and power lines. 

Metabolic syndrome is like this severe weather. We know that high blood pressure is a risk for cardiovascular disease, as is high cholesterol. Add these together with obesity and high glucose levels and you have the perfect storm for heart problems because of the combination of risk factors.  

“It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.”   Mary Engelbreit