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Metabolic syndrome

Metabolic syndrome History In the 70s of the 20th century, Dresden physicians coined the term "metabolic syndrome". In 1988, Gerald Reaven postulated the terms "syndrome X" and "insulin resistance" (Fritsche 2015).The term "insulin resistance syndrome" was coined in 1992 by Haffner et al. to emph...

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