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Vol. 8 No. 3 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2014.406

Metabolic syndrome and heart failure: data from the FADOI CONFINE study

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Received: 5 July 2013
Published: 19 September 2014
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metabolic syndrome, heart failure.

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Paolo Biagi
chipama@libero.it
Internal Medicine, Valdichiana Hospital, Montepulciano (SI), Italy.
Roberto Nardi
Internal Medicine C, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Giovanni Mathieu
Internal Medicine, Agnelli Hospital, Pinerolo (TO), Italy.
Giorgio Vescovo
Internal Medicine, S. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.
Giuseppe Scanelli
Internal Medicine, S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
on behalf of the CONFINE Study Group
, Italy.
Approximately 20%-30% of the population in industrialized countries suffers from metabolic syndrome (MetS), a condition that may double the risk of diabetes mellitus and heart diseases in the normal population. Both MetS per se and its components increase the risk of atherosclerosis and acute coronary artery disease and heart failure (HF). We reviewed the data from a recent survey of patients admitted to Italian internal medicine wards due to chronic heart failure to ascertain the prevalence and the relationships between MetS and HF in real life patients. Our data shows that some risk factors for this syndrome (above all obesity) reflect a sort of Janus phenomenon in that they are well-recognized risk factors for HF in young people, but they lose their unfavorable predictive value in elderly patients with HF.

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Metabolic syndrome and heart failure: data from the FADOI CONFINE study. (2014). Italian Journal of Medicine, 8(3), 169-175. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2014.406

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