Metabolic syndrome is characterized by a cluster of risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease. Recognizing metabolic syndrome symptoms is important because, if caught, future problems can be prevented. According to MedicineNet.com, metabolic syndrome symptoms include insulin resistance, high blood pressure, cholesterol abnormalities, and an increased risk for blood clotting. Normally patients with metabolic syndrome are either obese or overweight.
You may be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome if your waste size is a circumference of 40 inches or above for men and 35 inches or above for women. This does vary by race. In addition, blood glucose fasting levels of over 100 mg/dL is an indication of the syndrome as well as high cholesterol levels. To bring about a diagnosis, you must have three or more disorders, but if you have one you usually have the rest too.
Even having one of these components means your health is at risk. Each additional component makes that risk higher. If you have an “apple-shaped” body, or any symptoms of metabolic syndrome, it is best to have your doctor run tests just in case. This may help you to avoid serious diseases later on.
Equine Metabolic Syndrome Symptoms
It has been noticed that some ponies seemed to gain weight, even when they have not ate much, as if they were creating fat out of thin air. Some ponies just seemed to naturally obese it seemed. Thanks to the work done at the University of Missouri, the mystery has been solved. They coined the condition Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS).
The metabolic syndrome symptoms are very similar to human symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Scientists believe that it is an evolutionary development which helps ponies to survive harsh weather and food shortages. However, since the ponies have been domesticated, it throws the whole system off balance.
According to WordPress.com, signs of this syndrome can be very subtle and can often be confused with hyperthyroidism. Ponies, cobs, and warmbloods under 15 years old are the types most common to have EMS. Obesity is usually the first of the metabolic syndrome symptoms to be noticed. Abnormal fat distribution in the legs, a cresty neck, and excess fat around the head or tail are other. The horse will also have fatty shoulder, a fatty sheath, and they are usually described as having a ‘pot-bellied look. The horse may also seem ravenously hungry all of the time, urinate frequently, seem lazy, and may be infertile.
