Participants Sought for National Trial to Test Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle
(WorldNews Health)

(CHICAGO) - One-third of Americans have metabolic syndrome - up from one-quarter just ten years ago and it is underdiagnosed. Metabolic syndrome is a bundle of risk factors caused by common lifestyle choices that can lead to serious conditions like diabetes, stroke, heart disease and some types of cancer. People are considered to have metabolic syndrome if they if they have at least three of its five indicators - central fat (waist circumference of 40 inches or more for men, 35 inches or more for women), high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low HDL cholesterol and elevated triglycerides. The Enhanced Lifestyles for Metabolic Syndrome (ELM) Trial, a multisite test of two lifestyle...