SYDROME X: Time to pay heed!

Abstract

The terms overweight, diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure are becoming common norms of any health conscious society in the world. There is a worldwide increase in all these variables in mostly all nations of the world. It is common knowledge that anyone who is overweight or obese, as we call it in our medical terminology, will land up eventually with increasing age into one or more of its associated diseases or might end up with its complications, like unhealthy lipid levels or heart diseases. Also, such abnormalities run in families suggesting a genetic tendency; such individuals are then more at risk of developing them. These observations are factual and reflect the trends of societies across the world.