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Síndrome metabólica

Last reviewed: 12 Aug 2025
Last updated: 11 Nov 2024

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • hipertensão
  • aumento do índice de massa corporal (IMC)
  • aumento das circunferências da cintura e do quadril
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Other diagnostic factors

  • hiperglicemia
  • doença hepática gordurosa associada a disfunção metabólica (DHGDM)
  • angina
  • claudicação
  • hiperuricemia
  • distúrbios menstruais
  • dor abdominal
  • arco corneano e xantelasma
  • hirsutismo
  • acantose nigricans
  • acne
  • hepatomegalia
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Risk factors

  • obesidade
  • resistência insulínica
  • sedentarismo
  • dieta rica em gordura saturada
  • dieta com alto teor de carboidratos
  • consumo excessivo de bebidas alcoólicas
  • idade mais avançada
  • etnia
  • tabagismo
  • história familiar positiva
  • síndrome do ovário policístico (SOPC)
  • hipogonadismo
  • hipercortisolismo
  • antipsicóticos
  • distúrbios do sono
  • lipodistrofia
  • Infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • glicemia de jejum
  • triglicerídeos de jejum
  • colesterol total de jejum
  • colesterol de lipoproteína de alta densidade (HDL) de jejum
  • colesterol de lipoproteína de baixa densidade (LDL) de jejum
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Investigations to consider

  • hemoglobina A1c (HbA1c)
  • teste oral de tolerância à glicose (TOTG)
  • ureia e creatinina séricas
  • aminotransferases
  • proporção creatinina/albumina na urina
  • hormônio estimulante da tireoide (TSH)
  • T4 livre
  • ultrassonografia abdominal
  • eletrocardiograma (ECG)
  • testosterona sérica total e livre
  • sulfato de prasterona sérico
  • androstenediona
  • globulina ligadora de hormônios sexuais sérica
  • hormônio luteinizante e hormônio folículo-estimulante séricos
  • prolactina
  • ultrassonografia dos ovários
  • ácido úrico sérico
  • estradiol sérico
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Treatment algorithm

ONGOING

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Contributors

Authors

Panagiotis Anagnostis, MD, PhD

Endocrinologist

Department of Internal Medicine

Medical School

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Greece

Disclosures

PA declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Panagiotis Anagnostis would like to gratefully acknowledge Professor Faidon Harsoulis, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

FH declared that he had no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Cecilia C. Low Wang, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine

Aurora

CO

Disclosures

CCLW declares that she has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Alberti KG, Eckel RH, Grundy SM, et al. 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 Oct 20;120(16):1640-5.Full text  Abstract

National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). Third report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) final report. Circulation. 2002 Dec 17;106(25):3143-421.Full text  Abstract

Cornier MA, Dabelea D, Hernandez TL, et al. The metabolic syndrome. Endocr Rev. 2008 Dec;29(7):777-822. Abstract

Grundy SM, Hansen B, Smith SC Jr, et al. Clinical management of metabolic syndrome: report of the American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Diabetes Association conference on scientific issues related to management. Circulation. 2004 Feb 3;109(4):551-6.Full text  Abstract

Grundy SM, Brewer HB Jr, Cleeman JI, et al. Definition of metabolic syndrome: report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association conference on scientific issues related to definition. Circulation. 2004 Jan 27;109(3):433-8.Full text  Abstract

Grundy SM, Stone NJ, Bailey AL, et al. 2018 AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA guideline on the management of blood cholesterol: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2019 Jun 18;139(25):e1082-143.Full text  Abstract

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