Metabolic syndrome raises risk of stroke: study

Kudos, fatsos.

"A new study shows that people with the so-called metabolic syndrome have a significantly higher risk of suffering ischemic strokes, which are caused by a blood clot in the vessels supplying the brain and account of the large majority of stroke cases.

Metabolic syndrome refers to a cluster of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease -- including abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low levels of "good" HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides (another type of blood fat). The syndrome is typically diagnosed when a person has three or more of these conditions...

'Considering that the developed countries are experiencing an obesity epidemic, and that stroke is the leading course of disability and the third leading course of death in the U.S. and other developed countries, our findings suggest the need to target metabolic syndrome, especially metabolic syndrome with these two highest risk components -- elevated blood pressure or elevated fasting glucose in the clusters -- in order to reduce the public health, individual, and family burden of stroke,' Dr. Duanping Liao and co-investigator Sol Rodriguez-Colon noted in an email communication with Reuters Health."

It would be better to let the fat enjoy the results of their caloric irresponsibility and save the resources so we can target diseases that are not of one's choosing.