The Siberian Scientific Medical Journal
 
 
№ 5 / 2015 / 41-46

Abdominal obesity, metabolic syndrome and respiratory function disturbance

Author Affiliations

Abstract

The current findings on metabolic syndrome, its pathogenesis, diagnostic features, and visceral obesity as the main component of the metabolic syndrome have been presented in the review. The characteristic of impaired respiratory function in case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma has been represented. The results pointed to the pathogenetic link between abdominal obesity, metabolic syndrome and consequently impaired respiratory function have been shown.

Key words

abdominal obesity, metabolic syndrome, respiratory function disturbance, pathogenesis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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About Authors (Correspondence):

Travnikova N.Yu. – post graduate student, e-mail: shkutka@yandex.ru

Ragino Yu.I. – doctor of medical sciences, professor, head of laboratory of biochemical and hormonal investigations of therapeutic diseases, e-mail: ragino@mail.ru

Kovalkova N.A. – candidate of medical sciences, researcher of laboratory of biochemical and hormonal investigations of therapeutic diseases, e-mail: terap2000@yandex.ru

Voevoda M.I. – doctor of medical sciences, professor, corresponding member of RAS, director, e-mail: mvoevoda@ya.ru

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Received: 02/11/2015