RESEARCH UPDATE – Metabolic Syndrome

People with METABOLIC SYNDROME may want to GET IN BETTER CONDITION

PRIOR to undergoing a surgical procedure!!

According to a 2024 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in the International Journal of Surgery https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10793842/ involved 13 million people and the authors concluded that Metabolic Syndrome is associated with a significantly increased risk of surgical complications including mortality, surgical site infection, cardiovascular complications, increased length of stay, and hospital readmission!

The authors recommended pre-surgical screening and prehabilitation to reduce risk and improve short- and long-term outcomes!

Metabolic Syndrome is an “accumulation of at least three of the following five components: insulin resistance, obesity, chronic hypertension, elevated serum triglycerides, and decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.”  Alberti KG. Harmonizing the metabolic syndrome: a joint interim statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity. Circulation 2009;120:1640–5.