Metabolic syndrome: risk factors, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and management with natural approaches

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a bunch of metabolic defects comprising hypertension, insulin resistance, visceral obesity, fatty liver, and atherogenic cardiovascular diseases. Lifestyle modification is the first step for controlling the MetS progression. If left untreated, MetS is significantly related to a high danger of evolving type 2 diabetes and atherogenic cardiovascular diseases. Thus, MetS is a prominent cause of morbidity and mortality internationally and has been become very important to investigate novel therapies in this context to decrease the heavy burden of the disease. Though, there is no single treatment for MetS and the currently available pharmacotherapy and related comorbidities demand the…