Conditions / Syndrome

abdominal obesity-metabolic syndrome 4

info ยท Syndrome

An abdominal obesity-metabolic syndrome that is characterized by obesity, hypertension, and early-onset coronary artery disease and that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the CELA2A gene on chromosome 1p36.

Signs and symptoms

  • Hypertension
  • Hypertriglyceridemia
  • Decreased circulating HDL-C concentration
  • Type II diabetes mellitus
  • Accelerated atherosclerosis
  • Obesity
  • Coronary artery atherosclerosis
  • Elevated hemoglobin A1c
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Elevated circulating LDL-C concentration