Educational Objectives

 Diagnose the metabolic syndrome.

 Discuss lipoprotein disorders; inflammatory disorders; genetic factors;
 and ethnic groups associated with the metabolic syndrome.

 Manage hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL syndromes.

 Manage hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and CHD risk
 associated with the metabolic syndrome.

 Discuss the pathogenesis of insulin resistance; obesity; and
 hypertension associated with the metabolic syndrome.

 Discuss cardiovascular complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

 Implement nutritional strategies and/or pharmacological management
 in obese patients with the metabolic syndrome.

Subject Content

 Fatty acid metabolism.

 Pathogenesis of insulin resistance.

 Lipoprotein disorders associated with the metabolic syndrome.

 Diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome.

 Management of hypertension.

 Management of hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL syndromes.

 Pathogenesis of obesity.

 Nutritional strategies to manage obesity and the metabolic syndrome.

 Pharmacological management of obesity.

 Metabolic syndrome and inflammation (Hs-CRP).

 LDL and HDL subfractions.

 PPAR-alpha and -gamma.

 Cardiovascular complications of diabetes.

 Management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

 Genetic factors and ethnic groups associated with
 the metabolic syndrome.

 Pharmacological management of CHD risk associated with
 the metabolic syndrome.

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