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CALDERIN BOUZA, Raúl Orlando et al. Metabolic syndrome in first degree relatives of patients with diabetes mellitus 2. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2953.

A cross-sectional descriptive study of 340 persons assigned to two groups, with and without family history of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), was carried out. The objective was to detect whether those persons with family history of DM2 had more hyperinsulemia, metabolic syndrome, associated cardiovascular risk factors and target organ lesions, expressed in left ventricle hypertrophy, than subjects without diabetes family history. The result was that hyperinsulemia was present in 96 patients with family history of DM2 (56,5 %) and significance level of p= 0,001. Metabolic syndrome was more frequent in subjects with family history of DM2 (90) for 52,9 % of cases and p= 0,000. Hypertriglyceridemia was both the most noticeable marker of the metabolic syndrome and the most statistically significant risk factor in subjects with family history of DM2 (96 , 52,9 % of cases and p= 0,000). Left ventricle hypertrophy was associated as target organ lesion expression to subjects with family history of DM2 (36: 21,2 % and p=0,043). It was concluded that subjects with family history of DM2 are more likely to have hyperinsulinemia, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk factors and target organ lesions than those persons without such a family history of DM2.

Palavras-chave : diabetes mellitus; metabolic syndrome; insulin resistance; hyperinsulinism.