Having metabolic syndrome puts people at a greater risk of developing diabetes or heart disease in the future.

得有代谢综合征使人们具有更大在未来患上糖尿病或心脏病的风险。

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(HealthDay News) — Metabolic syndrome occurs when being overweight or obese — combined with other risk factors — increase a person's chances of developing heart disease and diabetes.

(每日健康新闻)——代谢综合症发生时如果超重或者肥胖——还伴有其它危险因素——会增加患有心脏病和糖尿病的机会。

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Other studies have linked poor flexibility to high blood sugar, which increases diabetes risk, as well as greater risk for metabolic syndrome -another risk factor for heart disease.

其它研究也将身体灵活度不好和高血糖有关联。而高血糖会增加患糖尿病的风险，同时也会增大患代谢综合症的风险，另一个就是患心脏病的风险。

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This first slide shows a graph of the impact of having metabolic syndrome on heart disease and its consequences.

这张图表明了代谢综合征,对心脏病的影响以及造成的结果

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It's because these are the women who have abdominal obesity, so women are less likely to have it in the first place, but many do, and of those who do and have that metabolic syndrome, then they're more susceptible to the heart disease outcomes than men are.

这是因为研究对象都是有腹部肥胖的女性,女性一开始的确比较少患腹部肥胖,但其中仍有人会有腹部肥胖,所以那些患代谢综合征的腹部肥胖女性,与男性相比更容易受到心脏疾病的影响

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If drugmakers can find new drugs that can silence Syndrome X, also known as metabolic syndrome, they could deal a devastating blow to heart disease--and reap huge sales.

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Amgen also has a partnership with Stockholm's Biovitrum to develop new drugs for the metabolic syndrome, a constellation of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that has big drug firms salivating.

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The market is even larger given the new appreciation for a condition called the metabolic syndrome, a hodgepodge of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that is estimated to afflict some 50 million Americans.

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