DIABETES is a complicated disease. It has all the makings of a chicken-egg conundrum. Does diabetes, for instance, cause obesity and high blood pressure, or vice versa?
The “metabolic syndrome” allows us to sidestep this question. To put it simply, a person has this syndrome when all the following conditions are present: obesity, hypertension, low levels of HDL (good cholesterol), and high levels of triglyceride (bad cholesterol).
