Global Experts Meeting On Diabetes, Hypertension & Metabolic Syndrome

Biography

Biography: Goutam Kumar Acherjya

Abstract

Metabolic syndrome is the constellation of high blood pressure, raised blood sugar, high triglyceride level, low HDL cholesterol and abdominal obesity which increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), stroke and diabetes. It is intimately related to overweight or obesity and inactivity that causes insulin resistance where the body can’t use its insulin properly. Higher education, urbanization, changing occupational status, unhealthy food practice, sedentary lifestyle, digitalization and higher body mass index are directly related to the greater prevalence of the metabolic syndrome. Over the past couple of decades metabolic syndrome have reached a pandemic dimension affecting not only the population of developed countries but also that of low or middle income countries that becoming the key challenge to the public health sector. CVDs are the number one cause of death globally; an estimated more than 17.7 million people dying annually, representing 31% of all global deaths. Metabolic syndrome will be the leading risk factor of CVDs in near future as its prevalence surges gradually. In 2015, the international Diabetes Federation (IDF) reported that more than 25% of the world’s population has metabolic syndrome which may vary due the age, sex and ethnicity of the population studied. People with metabolic syndrome are 3-5 times more likely to have heart attack/stroke or type 2 diabetes compared with unaffected individuals. Gradually rising the clinical and economic burden of metabolic syndrome to the individual, family, society and national level, so early detection and meticulous management of metabolic syndrome can reduce the long-term risk of cardiovascular risk and diabetes. Moreover, behavioral changes such as Heart-Healthy Lifestyle including healthy eating, healthy body weight, physical activity and quitting smoking may modify metabolic syndrome and finally reduce the risk of CVDs.